In this way, by the end of the book, she develops a renewed sense of purpose and decides to keep living. What she discovers in visiting parallel versions of her life is that people do rely on her in ways she did not immediately perceive, and that her small actions (being a piano teacher, keeping her cat outside) actually have a definite positive impact on the world. Feeling estranged from other people and lacking any real purpose in her life, she decides she no longer wants to live. Her cat dies and she is told her neighbor no longer needs her to deliver her medication. At the beginning of the novel, she loses her job at the music store as well as one of her piano students. Nora struggles to find meaning in her life. Purpose is another major theme throughout the novel. What she learns over the course of the book is that choices have consequences that can't be precisely predicted and that some regrets are more complex than they initially appear. In a life where she married her ex-fiancé, they own a pub together and are deeply unhappy. In a life where she is stuck with competitive swimming, she is close with her brother and her father is still alive, but her mother is dead and she struggles with her mental health. However, the book complicates this idea by showing Nora taking different paths but still remaining unhappy. When she arrives at the Midnight Library, Nora is shown a book called the "Book of Regrets" which compiles the things in her life that she wishes she had handled differently. She often wonders how her life might have turned out differently had she made various other choices or taken certain risks. In the present timeline of her life, Nora is filled with regret about her various choices.
Regret appears as one of The Midnight Library's main themes.
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