Belief... Like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity... and principles of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday my life was headed in one direction.. Today it was headed in another... Yesterday I believed I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space and can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we're born and continue after we perish. Our lives... and our choices... our quantum trajectories are understood moment to moment at each point of intersection, each encounter suggests a new potential direction...

Dr. Henry Goose, Cloud Atlas, 2012