When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true. Audrey Niffenegger
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There is a connection between the flat and the inverted. When we are flat, we are normal and ordinary. When we become inverted, we lose our normal and ordinary state and get transformed into something new. Inverted people feel like they are not the same person they were before.

We may look the same but we feel different, like we have been completely transformed into something else. We may even start to believe that we are someone else entirely.

Source: The Time Travelers Wife

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