“ Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortab… Scarlett Thomas
“ I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book. Scarlett Thomas
“ 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… Scarlett Thomas
“ But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead. Scarlett Thomas
“ But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time. Scarlett Thomas
