Harriet Reuter Hapgood Quotes & Sayings

What is it with you and time capsules?"
"I like the idea of a permanent record," he explains. "Something to say, This Is Who I Am, even when I'm not that person anymore... — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It's a little bit like a black hole. It's a little bit like infinity. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

After nearly a year of mourning, I feel like the Victorians when Edison came along- all those years in the darkness, and then electric light. I've got the earth between my toes. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

But perhaps it's that Grey is dead. It still feels like the moon fell out of the sky. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

If you turn people away enough times, eventually they stop trying to find you. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

But I like sleepy. I like nothing-ever-happens. I buy the same chocolate bar from the same shop every day, next to our village pond with its minimalist duck population of three, and then I check the Holksea village newsletter with no news in it. It's comforting. I can wrap my whole life up in a blanket. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

And as he looks at me, I suddenly get it. This isn't the Big Bang. It's just summer. But it's still love. It's still something. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

This is where Grey slept. In twenty-four hours, Thomas is going to erase his dreams. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

That's how I'll score my Nobel: one girl's experiment to live off cereal in her room for an entire summer. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

The Uncertainty Principle states that you can know where a particle is, or you can know where it's going, but you can't know both at the same time. The same, it turns out, is true of people. And when you try, when you look too closely, you get the Observer Effect. By trying to work out what's going on, you're interfering with destiny. A particle can be in two places at once. A particle can interfere with its own past. It can have multiple futures, and multiple pasts. The universe is complicated. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood