Meet Me in Another Life
Catriona Silvey
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You can't ever know someone completely. You have to be everything to them and that's impossible.”
“She is an accident of atoms, and when life is done with her, she will disperse.”
“Little kids all love the stars. They want to be astronauts. Explore the universe, see what no one else has ever seen. But then we get older and--we stop looking up. We keep our eyes on the ground and decide to be something realistic.”
“All of you wouldn't fit in my mind, or in any simulation. Only the universe can hold you.”
“It would mean you knew how to find me, even when I couldn't find myself. It would mean there really is no escaping you. But it would be a relief to stop missing someone I've never met.”
“I used to be so obsessed with making the right choice. Then, after I found out what was happening to us, I thought it proved that none of our choices in here meant anything. But I was wrong. Every single choice we made told us something about ourselves, about each other.’ She turns back to him, moves his hands in emphasis with her words. ‘Peregrine tried to tell us, but I didn’t understand. I do now. That was the point. For me to know every you. And for you to know every me. Because there’s only the two of us here, we needed to be everything to each other. And no one can be that. Not in just one life.’ Her voice shakes. ‘But we’ve lived so many, and I know you, as well as I know myself. And I know that every single version of us would choose the journey. Whatever it costs.”
“I mean, they only know each other as husband and wife. They might say things, do things, with their friends, even with you, that they’d never show to each other.’ He shrugs. ‘You can’t ever know someone completely. You’d have to be everything to them, and that’s impossible.”
“For me to know every you. And for you to know every me. Because there's only two of us here, we needed to be everything to each other. And no one can be that. Not in one life.”
“That’s probably not enough for you, is it? You want Meaning with a capital M. A message written by God in the stars, telling you the way you should go.’ Tears spring to his eyes. He can’t look at her. ‘You don’t believe that exists.’ He doesn’t know how many thoughts she lets pass unspoken. ‘I don’t know,’ she finally answers. ‘But if it does exist, I’m okay with not knowing what it says.’ She looks at him seriously. ‘Maybe that’s the only way to survive this. To be okay with not knowing.’ She stands, patting her pocket for the keys.”
“She wonders if everyone feels it, this hunger to live every life, to exist as every possible version of herself. ‘There’s always a moment, isn’t there?’ she says, flicking her cigarette end off the fire escape and watching it fall. ‘A moment when you choose. This path, or another one. What if I’d chosen something different?”
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Book Keywords:
choices, relationships, inspirational, dreams, life, career, unknown
