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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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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 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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“Dogs can smell when rain is coming, so they often head indoors if they think it's going to happen. Isn't that cool? That they can predict the future with their nose?”

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“Nora could remember the day her dad died, when she was in the school library staring as a blond boy from a couple of years below ran past outside the rain-speckled window. Either chasing someone or being chased. That had been him. She had vaguely liked him, from a distance, but without really knowing him or thinking about him at all.”

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“But entering a life wasn't the same as entering an emotion.”

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“Nora couldn't think of a legitimate reason for her not to do this, aside from Dylan's not-entirely-riveting conversation, and compared to the sandwich she was currently eating and the state of the rest of her fridge, Mexican food sounded promising.”

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“The familiarity of it felt strange. When she reached the shop she saw that something wasn't right.”

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