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81 " Oh, is that your argument? It isn’t cheating if it’s another version of me?” “I mean, it’s original at least.” This makes her laugh. That it makes her laugh says everything about why I love her. "
― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter
82 " I don’t want you to, but I need you to. "
83 " It doesn’t get any better than the first week of October. It always puts me in mind of that F. Scott Fitzgerald line: Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. "
84 " You want to leave. Huh. Keep in mind everything I just said, and now consider that you're the only person who's successfully flown that thing. You're in possession of critical knowledge that we've spent billions and a decade of our lives trying to acquire. I'm not saying this to scare you, only to appeal to your logical reasoning – do you think there's anything we won't do to extract that information from you? "
85 " I feel like I have little to give. "
86 " There’s a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential. "
87 " The Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics posits that all possible realities exist. That everything which has a probability of happening is happening. Everything that might have occurred in our past did occur, only in another universe. What if that’s true? "
88 " And a second thank you to my genius editor, Julian Pavia, who pushed me as hard as I’ve ever been pushed and made this book better on every page. "
89 " Eyes you can fall into and keep falling. "
90 " He’s a man on fire, in love with his life again. "
91 " All the tiny, seemingly insignificant details upon which my world hangs. "
92 " Daniela hasn’t worn perfume in years, but she’s wearing it tonight, and she smells like Daniela without me, like Daniela before our separate scents merged into us. "
93 " It’s one thing to be lost in a world that’s not your own. Another thing entirely to know you’ve been replaced in yours. "
94 " The Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics posits that all possible realities exist. That everything which has a probability of happening is happening. Everything that might have occurred in our past did occur, only in another universe. "
95 " Actually, they’re just as real as the one you and I are experiencing at this moment. "
96 " Are you happy in your life? "
97 " It isn’t married-people lovemaking that follows. We have fumbling, groping, backseat-of-the-car, unprotected-because-who-gives-a-fuck, protons-smashing-together sex. "
98 " Whole Foods smells like the hippie I dated before Daniela—a tincture of fresh produce, ground coffee, and essential oils. The "
99 " Lo que pudo haber sido y lo que ha sido se dirigen a un mismo fin, que siempre está presente. Las pisadas resuenan en la memoria a través del pasadizo que no tomamos, hacia la puerta que nunca abrimos. "
100 " Are we standing in a physical location?” “I think it’s a manifestation of the mind as it attempts to visually explain something our brains haven’t evolved to comprehend. "