Laurel Brett

“These were stunning thoughts—that Caroline and I were already parents, that Daphne was not the anomaly but the rule, and that the only weird circumstance would be the unexplained break in the membrane keeping these different realities separate.”
― Laurel Brett, The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel

“Just as in Borges, these were forking paths. At the pulsing point of divergence, one girl became four different girls, and even the inner kernel of self became reshaped by the path she traveled. The Schrödinger girls both were and weren’t the same person. The metaphysical implications were dizzying, raising questions about the nature of the self that psychology might never answer. Behaviorism didn’t ask any of these questions, and the rest of my training as a psychologist hadn’t prepared me to answer them either.”
― Laurel Brett, The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel

“reviewed these implications in my mind, assuring myself that I understood what I had just read: Daphne was a set of possibilities, and each possibility became manifest in a new universe when the universe branched off, as Borges had said it would. But once this new universe branched off, it could never interact with the previous universe. They split completely. But the question still remained: why could I interact with all four?”
― Laurel Brett, The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel

“I reviewed these implications in my mind, assuring myself that I understood what I had just read: Daphne was a set of possibilities, and each possibility became manifest in a new universe when the universe branched off, as Borges had said it would. But once this new universe branched off, it could never interact with the previous universe. They split completely. But the question still remained: why could I interact with all four?”
― Laurel Brett, The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel