“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… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“War thoughts again. I think back to the business cards from that health shop earlier on. I think about miniature wars that… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls'… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“I hate the honesty of the moring; the time before your consiousness switches on the light and gets rid of all the… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out… — 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
“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
