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“She tried to think of music. Thinking of music had always calmed her down.”

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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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“A tune came to her. She was slightly embarrassed, even within herself, to realise the song in her head was 'Beautiful Sky'. A happy, hopeful song that she hadn't sung in a long time. The sky grows dark / The black over blue / Yet the stars still dare / To shine for—”

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“But then the person Nora was sitting next to — a smartly dressed business woman in her fifties, and the source of the musky perfume smell — leaned in and whispered. 'I'm so sorry about what happened to you. You know, the stuff in Portugal...”

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“She had always hated being watched.”

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“A thousand or so faces stared, waiting. She had never spoken to so many people simultaneously.”

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“And...and the thing is...the thing is...what we consider to be the most successful route for us to take, actually isn't. Because too often our view of success is about some external bullshit idea of achievement — an Olympic medal, the ideal husband, a good salary. And we have all these metrics that we try and reach. When really success isn't something you measure, and life isn't a race you can win. It's all...bollocks, actually...' The audience definitely looked uncomfortable now. Clearly this was not the speech they were expecting. She scanned the crowd and saw a single face smiling up at her.”

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“Anyway, just be kind and...Just be kind. I have a feeling I am about to go, so I would just like to say I love my brother Joe. I love you, brother, and I love everyone in this room, and it was very nice to be here.' And the moment she had said it was nice to be there, was also the moment she wasn't there at all.”

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“My dad was alive because of me. But he'd also had an affair, and my mum died earlier, and I got on with my brother because I had never let him down, but he was still the same brother, really, and he was only really okay with me in that life because I was helping him make money and...and...it wasn't the Olympic dream I imagined. It was the same me. And something had happened in Portugal. I'd probably tried to kill myself or something...Are there any other lives at all or is it just the furnishings that change?”

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“It's a possibility. That is to say, it's a possibility that we are reaching the end of possibility.”

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“Nora thought of how good it had felt, swimming in the pool. How vital and alive. And then something happened inside her. A strange feeling. A pull in her stomach. A physical shift. A change in her. The idea of death suddenly troubled her. At the same time the lights stopped flickering overhead and shone brightly.”

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“Well, the computer says the root cause within the host has been temporarily fixed. And you are the root cause. You are the host.”

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