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141 " Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse? I built something that could actually eradicate regret. Let you find worlds where you made the right choice. "
― Blake Crouch , Dark Matter
142 " What if we actually inhabit the multiverse, but our brains have evolved in such a way as to equip us with a firewall that limits what we perceive to a single universe? One worldline. The one we choose, moment to moment. It makes sense if you think about it. We couldn’t possibly contend with simultaneously observing all possible realities at once. "
143 " Like standing on a beach as the tide sucks the sand beneath my feet back out to sea, I can feel my native world, and the reality that supports it, pulling away. "
144 " I feel insanity stalking me again, threatening to curl me up fetal and shatter me into a million pieces. But I shit it down, returning to my new mantra. I am not allowed to think I’m crazy. "
145 " F. Scott Fitzgerald line: Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. "
146 " What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened. —T. S. Eliot, "
147 " Everything that can happen will happen. Everything. "
148 " Life’s short. Don’t be mad. It’s a waste of time. "
149 " I whisper, “Now what?” And he says, “You wouldn’t believe me if I told you. "
150 " AMPOULES REMAINING: 1 "
151 " We live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we’re a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine. "
152 " In a minute, we’re going back into that corridor. We’re the controls. Your words. Right?” “Yeah.” “If that’s the truth, if it’s our emotional state that’s somehow selecting these worlds, to what kind of a place is your rage and jealousy going to take us? You can’t hold on to this energy as you open a new door. You have to find a way to let it go. "
153 " Whole Foods smells like the hippie I dated before Daniela—a tincture of fresh produce, ground coffee, and essential oils. "
154 " We leave this life the same way we enter it-totally alone, bereft. "
155 " wonder, Is this what God feels? The rush that comes from having literally spoken a world into existence? And yes, this world already existed, but I connected us to it. "
156 " Nothing exists. All is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you . . . And you are not you—you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. MARK TWAIN "
157 " And maybe I can let go of the sting and resentment of the path not taken, because the path not taken isn’t just the inverse of who I am. "
158 " It’s like we get so set in our ways, so entrenched in those grooves, we stop seeing our loved ones for who they are. "
159 " Will I keep fighting to be the man I think I am? Or will I disown him and everything he loves, and step into the skin of the person this world would like for me to be? "
160 " Different in a thousand tiny ways that might mean nothing and might mean everything. "