Hitler youth Quote by Scarlett Thomas

“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

“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

Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

— Scarlett Thomas

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

— Scarlett Thomas

“My mind now has a celebration party and a funeral going on in the same room.”

— Scarlett Thomas

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.”

— Scarlett Thomas

Routine kills creative thought.

— Scarlett Thomas