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“You need to choose more lives from the bottom or top shelves. You have been seeking to undo your most obvious regrets. The books on the higher and lower shelves are the lives a little bit further removed. Lives you are still living in one universe or another but no ones you have been imagining or mourning or thinking about. They are lives you could live but never dreamed of.' 'So they're unhappy lives?' 'Some will be, some won't be. It's just they are not the most obvious lives. They are ones which might require a little imagination to reach. But I am sure you can get there...” — Matt Haig
You need to choose more lives from the bottom or top shelves. You have been seeking to undo your most obvious regrets. The books on the higher and lower shelves are the lives a little bit further removed. Lives you are still living in one universe or another but no ones you have been imagining or mourning or thinking about. They are lives you could live but never dreamed of.'
'So they're unhappy lives?'
'Some will be, some won't be. It's just they are not the most obvious lives. They are ones which might require a little imagination to reach. But I am sure you can get there...