Laurel Brett

“was grandiose enough to wonder if I had found a glitch in the space-time continuum. Of course, I also questioned if everything I had discovered about Daphne could exist only in my own mind. I had to reject that idea when I remembered the snapshot, the guidance counselors, the Green portraits—all the manifestations of multiple Daphnes that existed in the real world, even if I was the only one of billions of people to know the reality of the Schrödinger girl.”
― 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

“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

“Then the outstanding variable would not be Daphne, it would be you and your ability to see these realities. What if we are all part of realities we never know? What if you and I are already married with three children in an alternate universe?”
― Laurel Brett, The Schrödinger Girl: A Novel