“There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwords, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?'. When you look back, see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or a forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.”
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