The End Of Mr. Y
A source page for quotes linked to Scarlett Thomas.
“There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.”
“I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.”
“Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.”
“I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.”
“The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.”
“...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.”
“The storyless story is a vagina with teeth.”
“Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.”
“What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.”
“If something wants to be a story, it will be.”
“In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.”
“Routine kills creative thought.”
“One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.”
“People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.”