The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don’t give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise.

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Thinking of music had always calmed her down.

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But my weakness was always physics.

Ha

quantum physics every alternative possibility happens simultaneously.

a million pictures on tracing paper, all with slight variations within the same frame. The many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics suggests there are an infinite number of divergent parallel universes. Every moment of your life you enter a new universe.

I’d say it was God. And as God is probably someone we can’t see or comprehend then He – or She – or whichever pronoun God is – becomes an image of someone good we have known in our lives.

🤩 deep

the human brain can’t handle the complexity of an open quantum wave function and so it organises or translates this complexity into something it understands. A librarian in a library. A friendly uncle in a video store. Et cetera.’

Yesss love this this description 👁️

Humans are fundamentally limited, generalising creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten out curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time.

Ufff auto-pilot is correct

Dream big…You can be anything you want to be. Because in one life, you are.’

‘We’re special, Nora. We’re chosen. No one understands us.’