Love and Other Thought Experiments Quotes

“We are not a brain. We are the purest distillation of consciousness without any of the distractions.”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

“Now she inhabited her life. It was the difference, she thought, between sitting by the side of the pool and actually swimming.”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

“In their four years together she had often felt like this, both there and not there, connected, yet keeping a part of herself separate, as though for emergencies.”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

“She had become the sort of person she approved of but she wasn’t sure she had chosen anything she actually wanted. She”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

“For most of your life, you are accustomed to a sense of your own importance; that the choices you make and the actions you perform have weight and consequence. You worry about a word misspoken or a decision rushed. You view other lives in relation to their significance and connection to you. Your parents, your children, your friends. You view your own life in relation to your successes and defeats. These are the things that matter. Winning a race, a fight, a war. Loving a partner or a cause. Saving a life or the planet. But when you think ‘planet’ you think ‘humans’. When you think about winning, you disregard the loss of others. When you think about love, you wonder who loves you back. Your worldview is selfish beyond your own survival, beyond your code. The universe revolves around you. One day you stand alone on a mountain or in a crater, and in that glimpse at the majesty of the sea or the eternity of the stars, in that moment when the telescope reverses, your sense of your unique self collapses and you carry the knowledge with you and you try never to forget. Have”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

“Thirty-five years of marriage had encouraged him to believe that socks, like sex and good humour, were liable to become available without any prior notice. You just had to hold your nerve. The”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

“Nicholas had always preferred negative attention. Absent father, repressed mother, she thought,”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

“Thought experiments are devices of the imagination used to investigate the nature of things.”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

“He could know them again. Back on the other earth, his alter-Arthur would be doing the same thing. But as that Arthur came to understand the nature of the universe, the world he inhabited would start to unravel. Eventually, that place would cease to exist. Somewhere in his body he already felt the loss. He wanted his Eliza, longed to share everything he knew with her as well. There was only hope for now, that he, Arthur, could live this life with the knowledge of what it was, and that he would not be alone. He could learn this world, take part in it with his new understanding. The books in front of him were a start. Sharing them with Rachel was another way of finding her. He scooped Rachel’s fingers with his own and held them tight. ‘Ready?’ he asked. ‘Ready,’ she answered. Together, they turned the first page of the scrapbook and began to save the world.”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments

“Rachel turned the page. ‘Thought experiments are devices of the imagination used to investigate the nature of things.”
― Sophie Ward, Love and Other Thought Experiments