Quotes About Alternate

History is all about 'what ifs

Don't you wonder sometimes,' Ursula said. 'If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had died at birth, or if someone had kidnapped him as a baby and brought him up in--I don't know, say, a Quaker household--surely things would be different.

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.

Your "look-alike" may be the result of one of the various possible futures happening simultaneously!

A staccato script of letters and digits beamed from an alternate world. Then they ceased communicating altogether. and began to liase in dreams and nightmares.

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.

Es raro que uno tenga acceso a su destino opuesto; nuestro camino único no brinda el menor acceso a los senderos no tomados.

The kingdom of God, which Jesus came to inaugurate, is meant to create an alternate reality in this world, and ultimately to transform the kingdoms of this world.

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.

The reality I submerse myself in when writing, is far greater than the physical reality surrounding me at work!

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

If I had my life to live over, I would have liked to have ended up as a sportswriter.

When mom died, my old roommate, Jimmy, said that in an alternate dimension, an alternate me might have a worse life.Now that's comforting, said Murphy.

know that it wouldn't offend me to be a substitute, because we are all of us substitutes for someone, especially initially:

On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

The great thing about a parallel-dimensions story is that you can literally never run out of plot.

I wish I could see what would have hapenned if I hadn't told. You told me once that every time a decision is made, the universe splits into two. So now there's a universe in which I kept my mouth shut. But I can't see what it looks like.

We all spend our lives living beside the people we could have been.

A existat o alt? via?? pe care a? fi avut-o, dar o am pe aceasta...