“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.”

“All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.”

“All the lives we could live, all the people we would never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.”

“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.”

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”

“All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)”