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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is a well-written novel that speculates the idea of the vast number of choices you can make that can result in just as many ways. Your choices can change your entire life or can be minuscule and insignificant. Regret, although it seems like it is the effect of a choice, is a choice in itself. Choosing to regret moments in your life is another concept illustrated in the book. This book encompasses themes of choice, regret, and depression. Concepts like these appealed to me, as they are very human emotions that every person goes through.

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“Nineteen years before she decided to die, Nora Seed sat in the warmth of the small library at Hazeldene School in the town of Bedford. She sat at a low table staring at a chess board.
‘Nora dear, it’s natural to worry about your future,’ said the librarian, Mrs Elm, her eyes twinkling."

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"strange and multifarious reality of the universe."
I think the ord "multifarious means", vary and plentiful. The prefix "multi-" is usually used to describe many things, and this word could be a synonym for the word "multitude".

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"And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness."
I think "intrinsically" means the nature of the thing in reference. I think the phrase "fabric of happiness" means the essence of happiness.

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This book's main theme is the relationship between choice and regret. The choices Nora makes throughout her life all ended with regret and missed opportunities. All of these wrong choices pile up, she falls into depression, and she kills herself. When she's taken to the Library, she can look at all of the infinite possibilities that her life could have had. As she sees all the possibilities, she regains the will to live. Nora realized that there are countless lives where she could be famous and successful because of the choices she made. But the reason she's depressed is not because of the choices she made. It's the regret causing the unimaginable pain she had to have to kill herself.

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"The trouble was that eventually Nora began to lose any sense of who she was. Like a whispered word passed around from ear to ear, even her name began to sound like just a noise, signifying nothing."
(simile)

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"No player should ever give up if there were pieces still on the board"
(metaphor)

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"The bear stood and stared, the way the walrus had."
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"The kettle was getting noisier, the water starting to bubble like Nora's thoughts."
(simile)

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"Her heart raced, as if she were about to set foot on a tightrope."
(simile)

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"We only need to be one person.

We only need to feel one existence.

We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility."

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"But it is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It’s the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people’s worst enemy."

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"That, she supposed, was the basis of depression as well as the difference between fear and despair. Fear was when you wandered into a cellar and worried that the door would close shut. Despair was when the door closed and locked behind you."

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There are patterns to life...Rhythms. It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence. That it is a byproduct of living a certain way, rather than simply living. I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”

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At the beginning of the book, Nora's cat Voltaire, or Volts, dies. After Nora commits suicide and she gets to choose a life to look at, one of the lives she tries to find is one where her cat hadn't died. But it is impossible. In every single possibility of Nora's life, this cat would have died. This is one of many lessons she learns, that some events are inevitable and she can't blame herself for things that weren't her fault.

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"I AM ALIVE."

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In this book, the main character Nora Seed is taken to a place called the Midnight Library when she dies. This library gives her access to all of the infinite possible lives she could have had, had she made other decisions. By the end of the book the Midnight Library is destroyed and Nora comes back to life. As Nora views and partakes in her other lives, she slowly comes to the understanding that her depression wasn't from her choices. It was from the regret she felt that made her feel sad and lonely. When she regains the will to live, the Library collapses.

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On page 75, Nora is looking at one of her lives where she ended up in Australia. Words like "rota" and "arvo" are part of the Australian English dialect. They speak like this because Australia has cultural differences so they speak a different kind of English than people in England or America.