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“All of this plot hole talk has got me thinking about a storytelling concept called Chekov's gun. It posits the idea that if you mention a gun in the first act, it has to go off later on. Like life itself, there's a momentum within every story, a preordained conclusion that everything will eventually guide you back to: a series of mysterious

“There are billions and billions of paths for us on any given day, and we certainly remember the ones that lead to something like a brutal car crash. We think to ourselves, Why me? How did I get so unlucky?` The problem is, we have absolutely no idea how many times we've missed one of the infinite tragic routes, ducking and dodging butterflies left

“Now that the collection was gone, the bookshelves lay empty. You would think with all the books removed they would look neat and tidy, but when a huge bookshelf lacked a single book and the room was dirty, the impression was that a thief had just come and gone.”

Dinner at the Night Library by Hika Harada

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do.

– Henry Moore (sculptor)

Rested, relieved, you look for the path. Ten steps, twenty. Nothing. But the path was right there. You don’t backtrack. Lost people seldom do. Rather, you push on farther, because you are dead certain this is the direction you came from. Every direction you turn, the view is identical, a claustrophobic wall of foliage and shrubbery.