The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

You will stay there as if you have always been there. Because in one universe you have always been there.

Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.

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.’