Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.” — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.” — scarlett thomas Copy Share Image
Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“If someone who had given up his whole life to thinking about goodness and rightness and truth and still expected nuns to… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“I can't fuck up his whole life and take away everything that means something to him just because I think I've found… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Someone who has the delusion Glass, is made of, does not literally believe herself to be made of glass but rather feels fragile and… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Child, all books are magic. Just think,' he said, 'about what books make people do. People go to war on the basis of what… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“My mind now has a celebration party and a funeral going on in the same room.” — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Even if you did drop into someone's consciousness, you'd have all their memories and desires and hang-ups right there in front of you. And… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“They really do have nothing in common on paper, these people and him. But yet there are so many common reference points; even some… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Aquinas wondered what would happen if God wanted to achieve universal resurrection. In other words, bringing everybody who had ever lived back to life… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.” — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
