Quotes About Alternate

The thing is, Harp, everyone is always one decision away from a completely different life.

'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.

Another occupation might have been better.

Might-have-beens are a bitch.

Speculative fiction includes all stories that take place in a setting contrary to known reality.

Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that mazeis itself an enslavement for it voids every alternate and binds one ever more tightly in to the constraints that make a life.

The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure

Denkst du nicht auch, dass man von Zeit zu Zeit Geschichten lesen sollte, in denen alles etwas anders ist als in unserer Welt? Nichts lehrt einen besser zu fragen, warum die Bäume grün und nicht rot sind und warum man nur fünf und nicht sechs Finger hat.

In another world,' he said, lowering his voice; I remember... was it not in another world, in a life which was not in thrall to sleep and its phantoms?...

I'll never know and neither will you about the life you didn't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

Every life, Tranströmer writes, "has a sister ship," one that follows "quite another route" than the one we ended up taking.

All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.

Harry Turtledove

An eerie electric glow emanated from the otherwise dark basement. "I'm not going to get sucked into an alternate universe by some poltergeist if I go down there, am I?" "Alternate universe, yes. Poltergeist, no," Nick said.

Another concept was that there were infinite Hubble volumes, each a universe—a number given the name googolplex—and that the similar alternate Earth they could see was so far away that it would take longer than the age of our universe to write that distance down. Both incredible ideas and, for Jonah, both beautiful.

alternate the theories you entertain about all things.

I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn't.

You're from the future, Mr Netherton? Not exactly, he said. I'm in the future that would result from my not being here. But since I am, it isn't your future. Here.

Reverie allows us to imagine other possibilities than those which lie immediately before us, other worlds than those we inhabit.

The multiverse was his TGI Friday's.

Jasper Fforde

I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

Tengo la teoría de que, cada vez que decides algo importante, la parte de ti que dejas atrás continúa la otra vida que podrías haber vivido