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41 " Genius implies originality and independence. "
― Claudia Gray , Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)
42 " The first time I traveled to another dimension, I intend to take a life. Now I'm trying to save one. "
43 " As much as each version has in common with all the others, we're still unique. Every single one of us, everywhere, is irreplaceable. "
44 " Believe what you want to believe. Doubt me, doubt Paul, hide in fin de siècle Paris if it makes you feel better. But if you won’t save Paul, I will. "
45 " We’re brought together by a power greater than either of us. Something bigger than our own world.” It’s not just a romantic saying; it’s scientific fact. "
46 " Fate and mathematics don't only bring you back to the people you love. They can also bring you to the people you hate. "
47 " Josie shattered into many pieces, too fragmentary to collect. But it wouldn’t be impossible to travel to each of those worlds. After all, you needn’t stay long.” Mom puts a hand on my shoulder, a touch meant to soothe that instead makes my skin crawl. “You won’t be killing anyone, Marguerite. The entire dimension will simply be erased from the multiverse. No one will feel any pain. No one will even know.” When a dimension died, it would take its entire history with it. The people within it wouldn’t die; they would never have been born. "
48 " I tried to reason with him. 'You're like one of those people who's more scared of flying than driving, even though you're way more likely to die in a car.''Yeah, but if I'm in my 1981 Pontiac, at least I'm going out in style. "
49 " We’ll have far better reach, as well. Instead of only visiting universes where we ourselves exist, we should be able to learn something about virtually any dimension in the multiverse— Henry. Stop giving noodles to the dog. "
50 " Standing among the redwoods does strange and beautiful things to your brain. You’re reminded of your own insignificance in the vast universe by these mammoth trees towering overhead, their leaves so far up that they seem to form a second sky. These trees live hundreds upon hundreds of years; some of the ones growing in Muir Woods today sprouted back in the Middle Ages. They’ll still be there long after the entire civilization I know has changed into something I wouldn’t recognize. Yet you don’t feel meaningless. Instead, you remember that you’re part of these trees’ history—part of the whole story of this world—connected in ways you can’t even guess. "
51 " Our lives are strange. "
52 " I don’t know why that moment was so special, but it was. That image is one of the first I remember every time I think of how I feel about him. It was like I loved him so much in that instant, like he was part of my blood and my bones. "
53 " There is strength within us that we can't even comprehend until it's called upon. "
54 " Paul got thrown out of Caesar’s Palace for counting cards, because he didn’t understand that casinos consider “mastering probability theory” the same thing as “cheating. "
55 " Theo was born in Chile, went to kindergarten in the Philippines, and attended middle school in Iceland. "
56 " I wouldn’t want you to do anything you’d regret.” Paul, do you have to be such a perfect gentleman right now? “I won’t. "
57 " I know that. Still, something in them is the same. Something deep—the deepest, most meaningful part of who we are, that’s the part that lives in every universe. In every person we could ever be. I fell in love with that Paul, and my Paul, because I fell in love with what’s the same inside them—their souls, if you want to call them that. Or soul. Singular. One. "
58 " There's not enough WTF in the world. "
59 " For me it was always Paul; it could never have been anyone else. "
60 " Você é solitário. E tem sido solitário há tanto tempo que já esqueceu que existem outras formas de ser. "