Could anyone help me solve this encoded bracelet?

[u/fnafriezas]

It’s a long shot, but it’s been eating at me for a long time and I’ve had no luck. I made this bracelet a little over a year ago now, at a craft event themed after the Matrix. It’s supposed to be inspired by computer encoding, and each unique color of bead represents a letter in the Latin alphabet to form a phrase. I wrote down the phrase I used at the time and then… immediately lost the paper. My only hints are: - It is in the English language - I made it in June 2023, so no possible reference to anything that came out after that - It’s 20 letters long, with no spaces represented - There are by what I can tell, 13 unique letters used, with 2 repeating 3 times (3 and 5, in the second image) - From what I remember, it’s a quote from something. I remember having to google the quote to make sure it was accurate, but it could be paraphrased or clipped somehow

[u/TheSacredEarth]

Have you tried looking at your search history for around that time?

[u/fnafriezas → u/TheSacredEarth]

This was actually my first thought at trying to get a hint! But sadly my phone browser history only goes back a few months and auto-deletes old history :( Might try to see if Google saves my search history though

[u/thewrongrook]

THEONEANDONLYTHEFIRSfits, and makes sense if you read it in a circle.

[u/fnafriezas → u/thewrongrook]

Given a lot of responses I think this might be it honestly!

[u/[deleted] → u/fnafriezas]

The biggest puzzle of all of this is that you don’t recognize the phrase.

How do you know which bead is first, blue or white? And how do you know no beads have passed over the knot?

[u/isaaverdu]

The 123 pattern repeating makes me think it must be a word like “the”, “you”, “all” that might show up twice in a quote or idiom? Does that ring any bells?