Exhalation

“Indeed. Do you now understand why I say the future and the past are the same? We cannot change either, but we can know both more fully.” (Location 361)

Bashaarat smiled. “Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. You may find one more agreeable to look at, but you cannot say one is true and the other is false.” (Location 449)

He talked about the European god and told people that following his rules would improve their lives, but his explanations of how that would do so weren’t particularly persuasive. (Location 2688)

An army general purchased a prism because he thought he’d be able to use a branch as a supremely realistic military simulation: he intended to have his parallel self make an aggressive move in the other branch so they could see what the response was. He discovered the flaw in this plan as soon as he communicated with his parallel self, who intended to use him in exactly the same way. Every branch was of paramount importance to its inhabitants; no one was willing to act as a guinea pig for anyone else. (Location 4057)

Hard-core sports fans collected information from multiple branches and argued about which team had the best overall performance and whether that was more important than their performance in any individual branch. (Location 4077)

“The hard part’s done. The rest is going to be easy.” He laughed. “Cheer up, you’re going to be rich.” “I suppose I am.” Which was worrying in itself; for an addict, a giant windfall could trigger a relapse just as easily as a traumatic event. (Location 4358)

Note: Be careful what you wishbfor good can be bad Maybe

and it was the usual mix: people you’d never suspect were addicts and people who completely looked the part. She (Location 4614)