Interference Quotes

“When Matt talked about particles being in two places at once, I understood it as a mother. I always existed in two places simultaneously as well: wherever circumstance had placed me, and wherever Morgan was. The only interruption during those next few quiet minutes was when the court reporter walked in and took her seat in the corner, where her steno machine had already been set up.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“life’s biggest waves clobber you when you’re not looking.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“they were always better together than apart. Fact was, you needed sunshine and clouds to make a rainbow.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“Given those truths, it seemed self-centered to believe that the Bigger Something would be too terribly concerned about the trifling affairs of one member of one tiny species, scrambling around one rocky planet, rotating around one unremarkable star somewhere out toward the edge of one insignificant galaxy. Therefore, I am ordinarily skeptical about the efficacy of prayer.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“Wasn’t that one of the secrets to a lasting marriage? When one person was down or doubting themselves, the other person lifted them up, made them believe.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“We all have our illusions in this world, and we cling to them. We think we’re standing on a broad, sturdy cruise ship of an existence when really we’re floating in a life raft. We construct webs of safety for our families and ignore the hungry spider in the corner. We convince ourselves that the terrible things we read about will always happen to someone else.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“We all have our illusions in this world, and we cling to them.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“couldn’t have committed sexual harassment because I’m actually a racist.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“you needed sunshine and clouds to make a rainbow.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“I have to be honest: at this point, we’re looking for zebras.” “Zebras?” I said, sure I had misheard him. “Have you ever heard the expression ‘When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras’? Well, in this case, we’ve looked for all the horses. So we’re left with zebras.” “Great,” Matt said. “I’ve always wanted to go on a safari.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“Sometimes the maternal drive felt less like a suggestion and more like a command. I stretched out beside Morgan, draped an arm over him, and snuggled as close as I could.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“If you took the entire electromagnetic spectrum—from short gamma ray bursts all the way to the longest radio waves—and stretched it out between New York and Los Angeles, the part that is actually visible to the human eye would be about an inch long. The other twenty-five hundred miles is invisible to us.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“Wasn’t that one of the secrets to a lasting marriage? When one person was down or doubting themselves, the other person lifted them up, made them believe. Made them better than they would be alone.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people,”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“I did my best to rid the house of corn syrup and insisted we add kale smoothies to our dinnertime regime, as if the whole problem with Matt’s diet was that it wasn’t trendy enough.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“Disorders of consciousness are a strange thing,” Reiner said. “If you’re having trouble walking, we look at your legs. If you’re having trouble breathing, we look at your lungs. But where do we look when you’re having trouble with your consciousness? Where is consciousness located? Can we stick a needle in it? What causes someone to go unconscious? What makes them wake back up? We’re not really sure.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“I am a member of that vast, indistinct, perpetually confused congregation of the spiritually nonreligious. Which is to say I believe in something; I just can’t tell you what. On some core level, I know there is something bigger than me out there, something I feel when I stand on top of a mountain, or gaze up at the stars, or look into my child’s eyes, something that has long moved humanity to search for metaphysical answers.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“Scientists have demonstrated that once you determine certain properties of one member of an entangled pair, you instantaneously and irrevocably change the other. And this mysterious coordination remains intact at every distance yet measured”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“When you’re throwing legal spaghetti against the wall in the hopes that something sticks, it always helps to have more noodles.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“Part of what makes quantum mechanics so difficult to comprehend—and so different from the simpler models of physics that came before it—is that it’s a world where no one can tell you exactly how something is going to play out. There’s no certainty. Just probability. Einstein hated this. “Gott würfelt nicht,” he fumed. Commonly translated as: God doesn’t play dice with the universe.”
― Brad Parks, Interference

“am a member of that vast, indistinct, perpetually confused congregation of the spiritually nonreligious. Which is to say I believe in something; I just can’t tell you what.”
― Brad Parks, Interference