“But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“But I’m not good at understanding what other people want.’
‘Tell me something I don’t know,’ said Rosie for no obvious reason.
I quickly searched my mind for an interesting fact.
‘Ahhh…The testicles of drone bees and wasp spiders explode during sex.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“You can’t go through life not listening to music.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“You’re unbelievable,’ said Rosie. ‘Look at me when I’m talking.’
I kept looking out the window. I was already over-stimulated.
‘I know what you look like.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“And how could I be sure that other people were not doing the same—playing the game to be accepted but suspecting all the time that they were different?”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“I met Rosie at the airport. She remained uncomfortable about me purchasing her ticket, so I told her she could pay me back by selecting some Wife Project applicants for me to date.
'Fuck you,’ she said.
It seemed we were friends again.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“Asperger's isn't a fault. It's a variant. It's potentially a major advantage.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“Fault! Asperger’s isn’t a fault. It’s a variant. It’s potentially a major advantage. Asperger’s syndrome is associated with organization, focus, innovative thinking, and rational detachment.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“I knew so much shit and I still couldn’t fix myself.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“What would you like?"
"A skinny decaf latte."
This is a ridiculous form of coffee, but I did not point it out.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“And it dawned on me that I had not designed the questionnaire to find a woman I could accept, but to find someone who might accept me.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“How can you tell if someone is a vegan? Just wait ten minutes and they’ll tell you.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload, with the most beautiful woman in the world. I believed I did well. I detected the trick question. I wanted Rosie to like me, and I remembered her passionate statement about men treating women as objects. She was testing to see if I saw her as an object or as a person. Obviously the correct answer was the latter.
‘I haven’t really noticed,’ I told the most beautiful woman in the world.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“Professor Tillman. Most of us here are not scientists, so you may need to be a little less technical.’ This sort of thing is incredibly annoying. People can tell you the supposed characteristics of a Gemini or a Taurus and will spend five days watching a cricket match, but cannot find the interest or the time to learn the basics of what they, as humans, are made up of.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“It would be unreasonable to give you credit for being incredibly beautiful.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“You know what I like about New York?” he said. “There are so many weird people that nobody takes any notice. We all just fit right in.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“Why do we focus on certain things at the expense of others? We will risk our lives to save a person from drowning, yet not make a donation that could save dozens of children from starvation.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“I need not be visibly odd. I could engage in the protocols that others followed and move undetected among them. And how could I be sure that other people were not doing the same - playing the game to be accepted but suspecting all the time that they were different?”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“I know this song!’
Rosie laughed.
‘If you didn’t, that’d be the final proof that you’re from Mars.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“Take notice of your emotions as well as logic. Emotions have their own logic. And try to go with the flow.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“If Rosie’s mother had known that eye colour was not a reliable indicator of paternity, and organised a DNA test to confirm her suspicions, there would have been no Father Project, no Great Cocktail Night, no New York Adventure, no Reform Don Project—and no Rosie Project. Had it not been for this unscheduled series of events, her daughter and I would not have fallen in love. And I would still be eating lobster every Tuesday night.
Incredible.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
“It seems right now that all I've ever done in my life is making my way here to you.”
― Graeme Simsion, quote from The Rosie Project
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“-when he thinks of the starry-eyed puerility and narcissism of these fantasies now, a rough decade later, Schmidt experiences a kind of full-framed internal wince, that type of embarrassment-before-self that makes our most mortifying memories objects of fascination and repulsion at once, though in Terry Schmidt's case a certain amount of introspection and psychotherapy had enabled him to understand that his professional fantasies were not in the main all that unique, that a large percentage I bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful--what else could explain the fact that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact that thy themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives?”
― David Foster Wallace, quote from Oblivion
“I adore my Queen and I am here with you. I love you both. I yield to that entirely as well as everything else and even the knowledge I may be punished. And when I am punished, I shall dread it, and suffer it and understand it and accept it. when you accept you will flower in the pain, you will flower in your suffering”
― quote from The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
“Do you remember, Meir, that epigram quoted in the name of Rabbi Johanan ben Zaccai: 'There is no truth unless there be a faith on which it may rest'? Ironically enough the only sure principle I have achieved is this which I have known almost all my life. And it is so. For all truths rest ultimately on some act of faith, geometry on axioms, the sciences on the assumptions of the objective existence and orderliness of the world of nature. In every realm one must lay down postulates or he shall have nothing at all. So with morality and religion. Faith and reason are not antagonists. On the contrary, salvation is through the commingling of the two, the former to establish first premises, the latter to purify them of confusion and to draw the fullness of their implications. It is not certainty which one acquires so, only plausibility, but that is the best we can hope for.”
― quote from As a Driven Leaf
“Hypotheses non fingo (Latin for "I feign no hypotheses", "I frame no hypotheses", or "I contrive no hypotheses")”
― Isaac Newton, quote from The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
“information linking him to the Sara-Sahara Shopping Complex. Finally, it was then, four”
― S. Hussain Zaidi, quote from Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
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