Quote of the Hour: Worlds Within Worlds

I knew more than they did, more than Blau, more than most people do. People think of reality as immutable: solid and reassuring, that it is true merely because it is there.

But I knew better. Even Tirosh, that hack, had a sense of the real truth of it, in his wild inventions and his torrid fictions. The world is the sum of what it could be, what it might have been, and how it could have been.

I know how fragile the borders are between the worlds, how quickly madness settles, and fiction becomes fact. The world is always stranger, after all, than we imagine. You can call it quantum mechanics, you can call it Kaballah, but either way, it was my job to stop it from happening.

 - Lavie Tidhar, Unholy Land, p.146