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“There was no predicting every future outcome after a single decision.”

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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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“It was a curious fact that no matter how many lives she had experienced, and no matter how different those lives were, she almost always had her phone by the bed. And in this life, it was no different, so she grabbed it and sneaked out of the room quietly. Whoever the man was, he was a deep sleeper and didn't stir.”

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“The now familiar question raised itself: how could she just join in to a life that she was years late for? Nora closed her eyes. The other lives in which she'd had children had only lasted a couple of minutes or so. This one was already leading into unknown territory.”

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“She really needed to know the girl's name. Names had power. If you didn't know your own daughter's name, you had no control whatsoever.”

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“The girl was staring at her in a way no one had stared at her before. It was scary, the emotion. She had Nora's mouth. And that slightly lost look that people had sometimes attributed to her. She was beautiful and she was hers — or kind of hers — and she felt a swell of irrational love, a surge of it, and knew — if the library wasn't coming for her right now (and it wasn't) — that she had to get away.”

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“The girl put her hand in Nora's. It felt so small and warm and it made her feel sad, the way it relaxed into her, as natural as a pearl in a shell.”

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“Nora's smile was still there but she felt tears behind her eyes. This seemed a good life. A family of her own. A daughter to go on camping holidays with.”

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“Either way, if she was going to bluff it in this life, she was probably going to have to read some more philosophy.”

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“She felt her face and it was creased from where she had been lying, and her hair — which was longer in this life — felt dirty and bedraggled. She tried to make herself look as presentable as it was possible to look in the two seconds before the arrival of a man she simultaneously slept with every night and also hadn't ever slept with. Schrödinger's husband, so to speak. And then, suddenly, there he was.”

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“Ash's gangly handsome boyishness had only been modestly dented by fatherhood.”

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“He was smiling and holding two cups of coffee, one of which was for Nora. She wondered how many coffees they had shared together, since the first.”

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