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“She could hardly speak. Or breathe. She didn't know what to say. Everything felt unreal. It was like time travel. As though she had fallen through two decades.”

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Book:The Midnight Library

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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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“FaceTime. To see his face. No. That would be too much. This was already too much. Just the idea that there was a version of her dad alive at a time after FaceTime was invented. Her dad belonged in a world of landlines. When he died, he was only just warning to radical concepts like emails and text messages.”

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“...I love you, Dad. And I just want to say that —' 'Are you all right, Nora? You're sounding a bit...emotional.' 'I just didn't...don't tell you that enough. I just want you to know I love you. You are a good father. And in another life — the life where I quit swimming — I am full of regret over that.”

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“...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.”

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“She felt awkward asking him anything, but she had to know. The questions started to burst out of her like water from a geyser.”

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“Are you having memory problems or something?' 'No. Well, yes, maybe. I have just been thinking a lot about life recently.”

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“She heard an awkward sigh down the phone. He sounded terse.”

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“What about Mum? Wasn't she the love of your life?' 'Once upon a time she was. But things change, Nora. Come on, you're a grown-up.' 'I...”

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“She wanted to do what she would be doing in this life, and what she would be doing was swimming. And maybe the water would help her think of what she could say.”

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“It was an exceptional swim, even if it gave her little creative inspiration, and it calmed her after the experience of having a conversation with her dead father.”

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