But then she remembered Mrs Elm knew a lot more than she should.
“You need to choose carefully,” continued the librarian. “One day the library may not be here and you’ll be gone for ever.”
“How many lives do I have?” “This isn’t a magic lamp and I am no genie. There is no set number.”
“It could be one. It could be a hundred. But you only have an infinite number of lives to choose from”
“so long as the time in the Midnight Library stays, well, at midnight.”
“Because while it stays at midnight, your life – your root life – is somewhere between life and death.”
“If time moves here, that means something very...” She searched for a delicate word.
... decisive has happened. Something that razes the Midnight Library to the ground, and takes us with it.”
“And so I would err on the side of caution. I would try to think very keenly about where you want to be.”
“You have clearly made some progress, I can tell. You seem to realise that life could be worth living,”
if only you found the right one to exist inside. But you don’t want that gate to close before you get a chance to go through it.
They both were silent for a very long time, as Nora observed all the books all around her. All the possibilities.
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