Dark Matter

by Blake Crouch

I thought I appreciated every moment, but sitting here in the cold, I know I took it all for granted. And how could I not? Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how precariously and perfectly it all hangs together.

I originally had put this line much earlier in the book. I always loved it, but it felt off for some reason. I realized on the third or fourth draft that it wasn’t working, because it was too soon in the story. This needed to be a realization that Jason1 comes to only after he’s lost his family and finds himself cast away in the multiverse.