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“She had seen a caesarean scar before, and now she stroked her thumb along it, thinking that even if she stayed in this life she would have always turned up late for it.”

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The Midnight Library

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Matt Haig is a British novelist born in 1975. His works are known for their humor and profound emotional insight, enjoying great popularity among readers. Haig's writing spans a variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, and realism. more

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“Generally, though, things turned out pretty good, and every time she wondered if she would wake up back in the library, she didn't.”

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“The day after, she watched Ryan Bailey on daytime TV being interviewed on the set of Last Chance Saloon 2, in which he said he was 'on a spiritual quest for a deeper connection with the universe' rather than worrying about 'settling down in a romantic context.”

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“Now she remembered it, Dan had been pretty rude to the waiter, and Nora had overcompensated with excessive smiles. It was one of life's rules — Never trust someone who is willingly rude to low-paid service staff — and Dan had failed at that one, and many of the others.”

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“She learned that undoing regrets was really a way of making wishes come true. There was almost any life she was living in one universe, after all.”

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“I want,' she said, 'a gentle life. The life where I worked with animals. Where I chose the animal shelter job — over the one at String Theory. Yes. Give me that one, please.”

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“It turned out that this particular existence was quite easy to slip into.”

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“Sleep was good in this life, and she didn't wake up until the alarm went off at a quarter to eight. She drove to work in a tatty old Hyundai that smelled of dogs and biscuits and was decorated with crumbs, passing the hospital and the sports centre, and pulling up in the small car park outside the modern, grey-bricked, single-storey rescue centre.”

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“Also, the issue of knowing people's names was solved by the fact that all the workers had name badges.”

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“She liked this life — or more precisely she liked the version of herself in this life. She could tell the kind of person she was from the way people spoke to her. It felt nice — comforting, solidifying — to be a good person. Her mind felt different here. She thought a lot in this life, but her thoughts were gentle. 'Compassion is the basis of morality,' the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer had written, in one of his softer moments. Maybe it was the basis of life too.”

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