The Future of Us Freedom and Confinement Quotes

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Quote #10

For the past five days, I've been trying to understand why this happens to me and how I can tweak things so it won't happen again. But I'm starting to wonder if it actually has nothing to do with the future. Maybe it has everything to do with what happens now. (56.45)

Here, Emma realizes that she's been using the future to manipulate what she wants her future to be. She's been trapped in the future because of this, though, instead of living freely in the present. Oops.