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What matters is that you don’t attach any importance to how you feel.
“Sometimes regrets aren’t based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .’ She searched for the appropriate term and found it. ‘A load of bullshit.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“It is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It’s the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people’s worst enemy. We can’t tell if any of those other versions would have been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“There is no rejection, there is only redirection.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“At the beginning of a game, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. So it gets very messy. And there is no right way to play; there are many ways. In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything. Every hope, every dream, every regret, every moment of living.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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