Next Nora decided to visit her best friend Izzy in Australia, only to find that Izzy had died in a car crash in that life. I wondered how the people left behind reacted to or explained that.) (Returning to the Library involved simply disappearing from that life. Nora didn’t like this Dan, which verified that she’d made the right decision. However, he was not happy, and in fact had cheated on Nora with another woman. He had achieved his dream of owning his own pub, and they were married. Nora had doubts that the decision had been a good one, so chose to slide into that life first. Her “Book of Regrets” was a long one.Ī year ago, she had decided not to marry Dan two days before the wedding. Nora had many regrets, probably more than most people. To see how things would be different if you had made other choices…Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?”’ ‘”Between life and death there is a library….Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. Elm had been her actual school librarian years ago a woman with whom she’d spent many hours playing chess and whom Nora liked and trusted. There were endless rows of endless volumes that were ALL ABOUT HER, as the librarian explained. Nora woke to find herself in the Midnight Library, a library like no other. I make life worse for people.” Įnd of story, right? Well…no. If I felt it was possible to stay, I would.

Through my own carelessness and misfortune, the world has retreated from me, and so now it makes perfect sense that I should retreat from the world. “I had all the chances to make something of my life, and I blew every one of them. She was in her mid-thirties, never married, had no children, and no one needed her except her cat. Her brother, upset over her decision to quit their band on the verge of success, hadn’t visited her in two years. Her best friend was 10,000 miles away in Australia. She lost her job and her only paying piano student, so had no income. She was being professionally treated for “situational depression,” but it wasn’t really helping. Nora Seed’s life was on a downhill trajectory.

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