In Case Anyone Else Needs To Hear This, Too

I mentioned in the last book roundup how much I loved Finna by Nino Cipri. It’s about two employees working at a knock-off IKEA chain who enter a wormhole that opens up in one of the showcase rooms. Inside the Narnia-like space, they encounter (among other characters), the captain of a ship who explains why she loved traveling via wormholes.

I keep recommending this book for this passage on page 100:

“It showed me that there were infinite possibilities, at all times. After I made captain of the Anahita, I worried over every decision, doubted whether I was brave or smart or strong enough to pull my mission off and protect my crew. I could remind myself that somewhere in the multiverse of possibility, there existed a world where I was all of those things. Maybe it was the world that I already lived in.”

It becomes a choice. If in one of the infinite universes, you are enough; you achieve everything you hope for and all of your effort pays off, why not believe that it’s the universe you are living in. That it’s not one of the branching paths but instead the life in front of you.

I love that so much.