Alternate Worlds Quotes

“Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it. ”
― Joan Aiken

“The mind reels when we realize that, according to this interpretation of quantum mechanics, all possible worlds coexist with us. Although wormholes might be necessary to reach such alternate worlds, these quantum realities exist in the very same room that we live in. They coexist with us wherever we go.”
― Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

“The woman trembled, eyes wide as she stared at the bluff. Her teeth pressed against her lower lip hard enough he wouldn’t have been surprised to see blood. Devyn recognized the building hysteria. His chest tightened; he’d seen like expressions all too often and it opened a raw, bleeding hurt in his chest.”
― Lynda K. Scott, Altered Destiny

“Sounds like you're trying to say that creation of new alternate worlds is a conscious decision.'

'I'm not trying to say it - I just said it.”
― Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves, InterWorld

“Hold on to your dreams,' said the tyger. 'They will help you change the world, or create new worlds, for every time you make a choice, that is what you do. And if you can dream of something--then in all of infinity, there must be at least one world in which that dream is real.”
― S.F. Said, Tyger

“[M]isbelief is enormously engaging and even fun for those who become deeply involved in its cleverly constructed alternate worlds. People who work in the gaming industry have drawn striking parallels between the structure of a conspiracy theory such as QAnon and the structure of popular alternate-reality multiplayer games.”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“No one wants a reputation as 'the reason the High Prince of Etheria died of heart failure.”
― Berlin Gunning, The Ill Fortune To Be Dark In The Eyes: A Novel

“The news continues, informing us that English writer Christopher Isherwood, an Austrian citizen named Clarimal Stein, and Lucy Harker, the daughter of Dracula’s slayer, perished tragically in a single-vehicle accident in rural Prussia.”
― Cynthia Ward, The Adventure of the Golden Woman