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The Invention of Everything Else QUOTES

1 " Women will one day rule the world, and when they do, their brains will be so finely tuned from all the years of quiet that I anticipate they will be far superior rulers to men. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

2 " I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

3 " A miracle," I yelled, but I do not believe in miracles. Miracles simply mean that the world of science is much greater, much odder, encompassing many more dimensions than previously imagined. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

4 " Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

5 " I would like to give you more of my heart,but there is nothing more I can give you. I gave you everything and you crushed it into bits. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

6 " I've been forgotten here. Left alone talking to lightning storms, studying the mysterious patterns the dust of dead people makes as it floats through the last light of day. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

7 " My love for him was -- Tyranny. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

8 " A man who has to forge his own tools, his own language, is a man who is going somewhere. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

9 " Love destroys. Thought creates. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

10 " It seems the loneliest place in the world for something so lovely. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

11 " a dream to one day design terrifically odd-shaped swimming pools for a California clientele. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

12 " Catching my breath. I watch them go. I watch them disregard gravity, the ground, and the distance between us. And though an old feeling, one of the wings, haunts my shoulder blades, I stay pinned to the window. I’ve learned that I cannot go with them "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

13 " No. I'm not from outer space or the future. And this is not magic, just science, pure engineering. Magic, religion, the occult --all of it-- they are all excuses to not believe that wonders are possible here on Earth. I don't want to be magic. I want people to understand that things they never even dreamed of are possible. I want to be believed, Louisa. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

14 " People can make beautiful mistakes, dear, and each one is an arrow, a brilliant arrow, pointing out the right way to there. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

15 " When a country goes to war, men can no longer operate free and open laboratories. The Government would like to know what you are doing. Businesses became corporations, the individual thinker became unpatriotic. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

16 " I am not from Venus. . . . I am from a small town on the Serbo-Croation border. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

17 " Arthur takes a seat beside her. The colored lights bounce off his eyeglasses and Louisa loses all interest in time-travel technology. The future and the past disappear. All she feels is the tension between two bodies. How his head had been in her lap. How her hand had been wrapped inside his. The tension leaks down her throat. The belly. The muscle. And something forged. A weld. A softness. A vagueness that is rather quickly being sharpened into a point aimed directly at Louisa's heart. "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else

18 " Something in knowing is not quite as wonderful as not knowing. The "

― Samantha Hunt , The Invention of Everything Else