The Wind from a Burning Woman by Greg Bear p.90

Of course the universe isn’t really held in a little girl’s mind. It’s one small thread in a vast skein, separated from every other universe by a limitation of constraints and qualities, just as death is separated from life by the eternal nonreturn of the dead.

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