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She had untapped things inside her.

Nora had read about multiverses and knew a bit about Gestalt psychology.

It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living.

Mrs Elm smiled, wryly. ‘It just shows you, doesn’t it?’ ‘Shows me what?’ ‘Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes. But I stand by what I said. It was a good choice. It just wasn’t a desired outcome.’

She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is a simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalising creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten out curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time. ‘It’s like how humans never see the second han

Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies.

Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.

Every life contains many millions of decisions. Some big, some small. But every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations . . .

‘Never underestimate the big importance of small things,’