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
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 Chang's Mexican double and so forth - but still, overall the idea was not without its merits. It made a strange sort of sense to me, on an intuitive, metaphorical level. Being in here - going… — Gavin Extence Copy Share
“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 like a set of twins who like to swap clothing from time to time. Order and chaos frequently intermingle and overlap, the same as beginnings and endings. Things are often more complicated, or more simple, than… — Gavin Extence Copy Share
“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 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)
