Reena

“Aquinas wondered what would happen if God wanted to achieve universal resurrection. In other words, bringing everybody who had ever lived back to life at the same time. What would happen to cannibals, and the people they ate? You couldn't bring them all back at the same time, because the cannibals are made of the people they have eaten. You could have one but not the other. Ha.' I looked at Rowan. 'That's a good example of a paradox.”
― Scarlett Thomas

“Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“Oh fuck. It’s like period pain in my head. It’s toothache of the brain.”
― Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y

“Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself”
― William Deresiewicz