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The End Of Mr. Y
Scarlett Thomas
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.”
“I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.”
“If something wants to be a story, it will be.”
“I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?”
“Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse. ”
“So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.”
“Oh fuck. It’s like period pain in my head. It’s toothache of the brain.”
“Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.”
“I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.”
“Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.”
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