Time Travelling with a Hamster Quotes

“You are at liberty to follow your heart. But that is not always the best option.”
― Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster

“I'm sometimes scared that I'm forgetting what my dad was like.”
― Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster

“Grandpa Byron's eyes move left and right as he chooses his words. "I tried to. But I think I left it a bit late with your dad. He preferred computers to his own imagination." He looks at me, a bit sadly, I think. "A lot of people do these days.”
― Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it feels like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity.”
― Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster

“My dad died twice. Once when he was thirty-nine, and again four years later when he was twelve. (He’s going to die a third time as well, which seems a bit rough on him, but I can’t help that.)”
― Ross Welford, Time Traveling with a Hamster

“Grandma Julie’s parents didn’t come to their wedding. Grandpa Byron says they were too busy, but that seems odd to me. Perhaps they were racists and didn’t like her marrying Grandpa Byron. Everyone was a racist in 1972, apparently.”
― Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster

“Actually, what he said was that he thought it was 'stupendously unlikely'. That's what he used to say about things that he thought weren't real, but couldn't prove. Stupendously unlikely. It's a cool phrase.”
― Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster

“There you go, matey!” I say, and I even move my head and pretend to follow his movements. As casually as I can, I say, “I’m just going to the toilet,” and I sort of stroll out of the kitchen, dead natural, down the hallway and into the downstairs loo. I have only got, I figure, about two minutes, probably less. Here is what is going to happen in the kitchen. Fat police lady is”
― Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster

“For nothing can travel faster than light. No matter how much energy you have, from whatever source – existing, or yet-to-be-discovered – physically moving faster than a beam of light cannot happen. If it could, then it would mean that all the laws of physics that we know, and have tested for centuries, are wrong.”
― Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster

“you know the way?” We walk up the alleyway from the seafront toward Chesterton Road, past the jungle of scrubland where the foxes lived, and we look at the house from across the road. All the time I’m thinking about how I’m going to get into the cellar”
― Ross Welford, Time Traveling with a Hamster

“I’m going to do it. I’m going to follow my dad’s instructions, and travel in time. I’m not sure it’s a good idea. I’m still not.”
― Ross Welford, Time Traveling with a Hamster

“right arm got wrecked in a fireworks calamity, of all things. He was setting some off for a big display and part of the metal rig that they were resting on had a loose bolt or something, and the whole thing came down and crushed his arm. He can’t use it much and it looks a bit weird, kind of twisted to one side. He got some money from the insurance company, and he stopped working at the factory.”
― Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster

“How Thunder Works My dad used to tell me that thunder is the noise that the rain clouds make when they bump together, then they crack and all the rain spills out. I believed him for ages. In truth, thunder is lightning. At any rate, it’s the noise of lightning. It’s just that lightning travels at the speed of light, so you see it pretty much as soon as it flashes. The sound of the lightning – thunder – travels much, much slower, so you hear it afterwards. When you see lightning, start counting slowly until you hear the thunder. Then divide the number you get by three. That’s how many kilometres away the storm is. If the number gets smaller then the storm is getting closer.”
― Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster

“Ee, well, not really.” (This “Ee” that Mum says, it’s part of her Geordie accent, and it usually makes me smile,”
― Ross Welford, Time Travelling with a Hamster