The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Gavin Extence
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?”
“When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people's brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be.”
“The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
“The first thing I learned that day was this: what you think you know about a person is only a fraction of the story.”
“I'm saying that death is the easiest thing in the world. It's only dying that's terrible.”
“In life, there are no true beginnings or endings.”
“Well, for each of us the brain creates a whole, unique universe. It contains everything we know. Everything we see or touch. Everything we feel and remember. In a sense, our brains create all of reality for us. Without the brain, there's nothing. Some people find this idea scary, but I think it's rather beautiful.”
“I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.”
“Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.”
“... not all scars are bad, Alex. Some are worth hanging on to ...”
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