The Midnight Library

by Matt Haig

‘You have as many lives as you have possibilities. There are lives where you make different choices. And those choices lead to different outcomes. If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story. And they all exist in the Midnight Library. They are all as real as this life.’ ‘Parallel lives?’ ‘Not always parallel. Some are more . . . perpendicular.

‘What if one day you disappear for good? Before you have found a life to settle in?’ He shrugged. ‘Then I will die. And it means I would have died anyway. In the life I lived before. I kind of like being a slider. I like imperfection. I like keeping death as an option. I like never having to settle.’

‘Are you God?’ She smiled. ‘I am who I am.’

Alas, String Theory is no longer able to trade in these premises. Due to an increase in rent we simply couldn’t afford to go on. Thanks to all our loyal customers. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right. You Can Go Your Own Way. God Only Knows What We’ll Be Without You.

Always love lyrics casually added in

‘It’s the eleventh aisle that way. Third shelf from the bottom.’

Umm

We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite.

So let’s be kind to the people in our own existence.

‘You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.’