In a Changed Timeline, You Don’t Remember Your Changed Life

If I could go back into the past, there is one event which I should most certainly change: my rescue of Paul Arkwright!

Change the past! Why haven’t I thought of this before? It can be done!

Keep your voice down, Harrison! You might wake Martin, and that would be dangerous! It would alter the past!

I’ve got a devil of a lot more than a premonition. Lincole will be assassinated unless somebody tries to prevent it!

Ah, agony in a tearing that made him feel, for the first time, every particle of his body as it screamed in pain.

Yes, exactly. You step on a bug and the fucking Internet is never invented.

Buster: What’s the square root of 49? [Buster thinks] I don’t know. I don’t know! . . . I’m baaaaack!

He told me all the horrible things that would happen if I broke any Time Laws. Worlds would collapse. I would turn inside out. Important people would die and important things wouldn’t happen.

“So, you time travelled,” said Janice.
“Yes.”
“You’re sure you didn’t just dream this?”
“Yes.”
Janice considered it. “Well, it is odd. But there are a lot of things in life I can’t explain.”
“You believe me?”
“I think I do, though you might not want to tell everyone what happened. It could raise questions.”
“About time travel or my mental stability?”

“What? You live almost a hundred years in the future and you’ve never seen microfilm before?” asked Grant, who shook his head. “Women.”

“We have computer code which can store a warehouse of microfilm in a space the size of a pinhead.”

“How the hell do you do that?”

“With a series of zeros and ones.”

“That makes no sense whatsoever.”

“Yeah, I don’t really understand it myself.”

Luister, jongedame: De mensen denken al eeuwen dat ze leven in het einde der tijden. Het zou handig ziln als je jezelf ietsje minderbelangrijk maakt.

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Listen, young lady: People have thought for centuries that the end of time is drawing near. It would help everyone if you showed just a little less . . . self-importance.

Time? Of course, that’s how he did it. This is not another reality—this is our reality. He went back in time and changed the present.

“I know it’s your birthday,” Leonard said. “You’ve made me watch Sixteen Candles enough times to ensure that I wouldn’t let this one slide.”

If your parents don’t get married and have kids, then basically you just have no life to go home to because everything woud be different. No one would have any idea who you are.