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Quotes About Alternate

She's his kid sister, but... I guess it's like she got sucked into this alternate dimension when she was little? And this demon guy taught her all this black magic and, like, twisted her soul.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time.
~ Terry Pratchett
Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.
~ Terry Pratchett
Don't worry! On another Earth it already happened'
~ Terry Pratchett
I told you Imo made many worlds. I told you that sometimes I think I can see a little way into the world where the wave did not happen. Well, now you will get onto that ship, or... you won't. Whatever you choose, your choice will mean there are two new worlds. And perhaps sometimes, on the edge of sleep, we will see the shadow of the other world. There will be no unhappy memories.
~ Terry Pratchett
if we have had enough of something, rightly or wrongly, all we have to do is to busy ourselves with something else; there is no reason why we should speak disparagingly of it; he who has studied Aristotle too much can "go and play the violin.
~ Frithjof Schuon
And as much as a person might try to shield herself from it, the possibility for the other outcome was always there. We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sam considered his French fries. "Are there other worlds?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
He was a good boyfriend to her as, in some universe elsewhere, he might have been to me.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It's about how we're all part of an infinite number of parallel worlds. Every time we make a choice, a carbon copy of ourselves makes the opposite choice in a different universe.
~ Brian Freeman
They inhabited what ancient Oceanic peoples called "the Dreamtime," a gauzy, blissful place located somewhere between our generally-agreed-upon reality and any number of sublime alternate states.
~ Susan Casey
I had a very clear vision. If Indians start consuming power like the Americans, the world will run out of resources. Either you stop India from developing, or you find some alternate solution.
~ Tulsi Tanti
Thank you, lives we did not lead, might like to lead, might still lead.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
These times are unfriendly toward Worlds alternative to this one
~ Thomas Pynchon
Ah, se… Muitas vezes seus pensamentos tinham girado em círculos em volta desse "se", brincando com a ideia de como sua vida teria sido "se".
~ Camilla Lackberg
There were three basic reasons why Librarians were sent out to alternates to find specific books: because the book was important to a senior Librarian, because the book would have an effect on the Language, or because the book was specific and unique to that alternate world. In this last case, the Library's ownership of it would reinforce the Library's links to the world from which the book originated.
~ Genevieve Cogman
There were always problems in dealing with the Fae. Despite their human appearance, they were soul-destroying entities from beyond space and time who introduced chaos into alternate worlds.
~ Genevieve Cogman
And on the few occasions when it simply hadn't been invented and you had indeed introduced the alternate to a whole new concept, you could end up with problems like cold fusion.
~ Genevieve Cogman
The Circus Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing on Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war.
~ Geoff Schumacher
If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.
~ George Carlin
What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.
~ Hilary Mantel
one can be easily substituted for the other.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Imagine what might have happened had you not missed your train
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb