" Who is to say where you are?’ Mirkady asked lightly. ‘Some say there is a different world for every story ever told or untold, that there is no such thing as the here and now, only the unfolding of infinite possibilities, all of them real in some place or other.’ ‘In which case,’ Dwarmo said, vastly amused, ‘there is no such thing as a mistake. "

― Paul Kearney , A Different Kingdom