Alternate Lives Quotes

“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. Some people's emanations are very strong, some people create themselves afresh outside of their own body.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“What about the lives
I might have lived?
As who? And who
will be accountable
for this regret I see
no way to avoid?”
― Charif Shanahan

“Thank you, lives we did not lead, might like to lead, might still lead.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, There Is No Long Distance Now

“the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of braille.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“We are all living, at most, half of a life. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one you were living.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow