Infinite grace. Infinite possibility. The mercy of the universe extended in its own laws. According to quantum theory, there are not only second chances, but multiple chances. Space is not simply connected. History is not unalterable. The universe itself is forked. If we knew how to manipulate space-time as space-time manipulates itself, the illusion of our single linear lives would collapse. And if our lives here are not the total, our deaths here will not be the final.

~Jeanette Winterson; Gut Symmetries