When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“Although I don't use it nearly so much anymore, I've decided, five years down the line, that Mr. Treadstone's verdict on 'kind of' was kind of unjust. Obviously, this phrase can be redundant or reductive, or just plain stupid in… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“The first thing I learned that day was this: what you think you know about a person is only a fraction of the story.” — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record. — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“Well, for each of us the brain creates a whole, unique universe. It contains everything we know. Everything we see or touch. Everything we… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“They called our arrangement a 'Death Pact' - but, really, that's not a phrase that tells you anything important. It's just the kind of… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds. — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“It was a uniquely human problem, something no other animal had to put up with, this ability to suffer in multiple tenses – simultaneously… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“The more I thought about Jocelyn's theory, the less bizarre it seemed. Yes, there were things about it that were absolutely cuckoo - Mrs… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“It's possible to find order in chaos, and it's equally possible to find chaos underlying apparent order. Order and chaos are slippery concepts. They're… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging reality for myself was one thing. Having to explain what as happening - and what was going to happen - to another person… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“... The Sirens of Titan …. … ‘That’s a funny name for a book,’ I said with a gulp. ‘Are those women going to… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“Don't you think it's good to serve your country?' I asked. 'No, I don't,' Mr Peterson said. 'I think it's good to serve your… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“People talk about dark moods, black moods, all the time. But depression isn’t a dark mood. It’s an ash-grey mood, or possibly some type… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
![“The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.” quote by Gavin Extence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/89d/gavin-extence-17798_alive_the-most-important-thing-i-learned-was-t_8160.jpg)
