Page 248 - The Midnight Library

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‘It was the perfect life.’

‘Did you feel that? All the time?’
‘Yes. I mean . . . I wanted to. I mean, I loved Molly. I might have loved
Ash. But I suppose, maybe . . . it wasn’t my life. I hadn’t made it by myself. I
had walked into this other version of me. I was carbon-copied into the

perfect life. But it wasn’t me.’
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‘I don’t want to die,’ said Nora, her voice suddenly raised but also fragile.
She was shaking from her ver y core. ‘I don’t want to die.’

Mrs Elm looked at her with wide eyes. Eyes shining with the small flame
of an idea. ‘You need to get out of here.’
‘I can’t! e librar y goes on for bloody ever. e moment I walked in it,
the entrance disappeared.’

‘ en you have to find it again.’
‘How? ere are no doors.’
‘Who needs a door when you have a book?’
‘ e books are all on fire.’

‘ ere’s one that won’t be. at’s the one you need to find.’
‘e Book of Regrets?’
Mrs Elm almost laughed. ‘No. at is the last book you need. at will be
ash by now. at will have been the first book to burn. You need to go that

way!’ She pointed to her le, to chaos and fire and falling plaster. ‘It’s the
eleventh aisle that way. ird shelf from the bottom.’
‘ e whole place is going to fall down!’
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‘Don’t you get it, Nora?’
‘Get what?’

‘It all makes sense. You came back here this time not because you wanted
to die, but because you want to live. is librar y isn’t falling down because it
wants to kill you. It’s falling down because it is giving you a chance to return.
Something decisive has finally happened. You have decided you want to be

alive. Now go on, live, while you still have the chance.’
‘But . . . what about you? What’s going to happen to you?’