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“Because memory…is everything. Physically speaking, a memory is nothing but a specific combination of neurons firing together—a symphony of neural activity. But in actuality, it’s the filter between us and reality.
‘It is evident the mind does not know things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them.’ ”
When every memory contains a universe, what does simple even mean?
“These are powerful people. Franny had a breakdown when she remembered, and they knew. They showed up. They threatened me.”
“Helena, you didn’t just build a chair that helps people relive their memories. You made something that can return them to the past.”
If we can see ahead, then we can think ahead; we can plan. And then we can envision the future, even if it doesn’t exist.”
“Wait, so this all happened when?” “On the original timeline.”
His heart is full in a way it hasn’t been in as long as he can remember.
“Is this moment real?” He looks down at her. “I don’t know.”
“If memory is unreliable, if the past and the present can simply change without warning, then fact and truth will cease to exist. How do we live in a world like that?
“What are dead memories?” Barry asks. “It’s what everyone thinks of as false memories. Except they aren’t false. They just happened on a timeline that someone ended. For instance, the timeline where your daughter was hit by a car is now a dead memory. You ended that timeline and started this one when Slade killed you in the deprivation chamber.”
“You can get fucked.”
Period
Timoney returns to a memory to stop a deranged fifty-two-year-old insurance salesman from walking into a political demonstration at Berkeley and massacring twenty-eight students with an assault rifle.
Omg....
We will find a way to solve this. If not in the next life, then the one after. And if not in that one, then the one—”
“My soul knows your soul. In any time.”
And a glimmer of joy rides through him at the possibility that she lives, and the hope that, in this next reality, even if only for a moment, he will be with her again.
The cell is enclosed on two sides by stone walls, and the other two by sheets of ultrastrong glass pocked with ventilation holes. Inside the cell, there’s a toilet, a shower, a small table, and a bed, upon which lies Marcus Slade.
Lol alright
