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Death is the opposite of possibility.

'Of course you're going to be worried about the exams. But you could be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exciting.'
'Yes. I suppose it is.'
'A whole life in front of you.'
'A whole life.'

He’d also observed that part of this success was the product of being alone. ‘I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.’

And Nora felt similarly, in that moment. Although she had only been left alone for an hour at this point, she had never experienced this level of solitude before, amid such unpopulated nature.

She had thought, in her nocturnal and suicidal hours, that solitude was the problem. But that was because it hadn’t been true solitude. The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wilderness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.

Bibliotekarer har kunnskap. De veileder folk til de rette bøkene. De rette verdenene. De finner de beste stedene. Som søkemotorer med sjel.

The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (...) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.

...you can choose choices but not outcomes.

Maybe in some lives you just float around and espect nothing else and don`t even try to change. Maybe that was most lives.

Between life and death there is a library, she said. And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a change to try another life you could have lived, To see how things would be different if had made other choices.....

He seemed like he would be able to sit in a field near Chernobyl and marvel at the beautiful scenery.

she realised that you could be honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, its not what you look at that matters, its what you see.