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Scarlett Thomas

Max always mumbles; not in a shy way, but rather as if he’s telling you what it will cost to take out your worst enemy, or how much you’d have to pay to rig a horse race.

character, description, man, mumble, speaking

Scarlett Thomas

I feel like crying. There’s something so sad about broken concrete.

broken, concrete, crying, emotions, sad

Scarlett Thomas

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

consciousness, physics, seeing

Scarlett Thomas

Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we’ve looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.

characters, heroes, villains, writing

Scarlett Thomas

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

disappointment, life

Scarlett Thomas

The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it’s been freeze-framed.

description, enviroment, rain, sky, weather

Scarlett Thomas

Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

existentialism, female-authors, philosophy

Scarlett Thomas

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more ‘normal’ girls’ activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

Scarlett Thomas

Patrick opens his arms about three feet wide and, with one finger pointing up on each hand, tries to show the scope of this thing. I notice that he doesn’t look at his hands as he does this, but at the wall behind me. It suddenly occurs to me that when people describe size this way, they’re relying on perspective to help them. He’s not saying ‘It’s this big.’ He’s saying ‘It would look this big from here if it was over there.

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Scarlett Thomas

Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang in the air like silk puppets. Sometimes I think I see my own ideas, floating around too, but they usually don’t last that long. They’re more like mayflies; they’re born, big and gleaming, and then they fly around, buzzing like crazy before they fall to the floor, dead, about twenty four hours later.

doubts, ideas, life

Scarlett Thomas

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

homeopathy, memory, water

Scarlett Thomas

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.