Gregg Dunnett > Quotes

“Darwin Award. That’s not a real award, it’s a joke. They give them to people who die doing something so stupid that it counts as a service to humanity.”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Wave at Hanging Rock

“Much of the action in this book takes place on the island”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Glass Tower

“Todos tenemos un mundo interno que se mantiene privado, donde exploramos opciones que nunca consideraríamos llevar a cabo.”
― Gregg Dunnett, El secreto de las olas

“installed is called Keylogger Free.”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Lornea Island Detective Club

“there were loads available. John did all the”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Wave at Hanging Rock

“What it does is secretly record everything that happens to your computer. Every time someone uses the keyboard, it turns on the webcam and starts recording. Only there's nothing to tell the person using it that the webcam is on. It does it secretly.”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Lornea Island Detective Club

“doesn't even turn on the little red light. If you're using the computer, you'd never know that you're being recorded the whole time.”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Lornea Island Detective Club

“«Los pensamientos simplemente aparecen en nuestra mente, como de la nada. No tenemos libertad para elegirlos antes de que aparezcan. Y cuando consideramos nuestros pensamientos, después de que aparezcan, cuando elegimos si actuar o no en base a un pensamiento, ¿de dónde viene ese pensamiento? ¿Lo elegimos nosotros o, de alguna manera, lo eligen por nosotros?»”
― Gregg Dunnett, La fuga

“it has a list of the videos it's made during the day, along with”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Lornea Island Detective Club

“jumper.”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Island of Dragons

“SpyCatch.”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Lornea Island Detective Club

“It’ll be good. You and me being together in school,” Dad said for what must have been the third time that afternoon. He had his plastic goggles pushed up onto his forehead so his hair stuck up like a porcupine.”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Wave at Hanging Rock

“—Yo tengo el don de la perspicacia, ángel, pero tú estás más dotada que yo. Posees el don de la lucha.”
― Gregg Dunnett, La fuga

“Pero sí, la teoría y la mayoría de las pruebas disponibles sugieren que nuestro concepto de culpa es problemático, en el mejor de los casos. Si alguien que comete un asesinato lo hace porque simplemente recibe una elección que ya está hecha en lo más profundo de su conciencia, sobre la que no tiene control, y que es incapaz de ignorar, entonces sí, no es realmente su culpa, tal y como lo definiría la mayoría de la gente.”
― Gregg Dunnett, La fuga

“«Cada decisión que crees que tomas, no la tomas. Cada paso que das en la vida está determinado por pasos que vinieron antes, pasos que tú diste y pasos que dieron por ti tus padres, los padres de tus padres y el infinito río del tiempo».”
― Gregg Dunnett, La fuga

“Lots of people think whale's tails are called flukes, but they're actually made up of two flukes, one on each side. The right word for the whole tail is just tail, like I said”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Things You Find in Rockpools

“«Vivimos en un universo determinista, en el que cada acción es el resultado de las anteriores. Cada paso que damos no es nuestra elección, sino la consecuencia inevitable de factores que escapan a nuestro control. El libre albedrío no existe».”
― Gregg Dunnett, La fuga

“It made an angry whistling noise like a boiling kettle as it sat on the grass launchpad, but when the needle on the compressor’s dial trembled into the red section, something sprung a leak and the rocket screamed sideways into the fence. Every one of Dad’s experiments seemed to centre on blowing something up. Most of them took out a fence panel or two.  “I bet you’ve never done”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Wave at Hanging Rock

“It promised to be the most exciting night in Julia Ottley’s life so far. And that was before the accident. And since Julia was already well into her forties (she’d told her agent she was thirty-eight, but now she had acquired a Wikipedia page”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Glass Tower

“Si eso es así en todos los casos, se deduce que la sensación que tenemos de tomar decisiones es en realidad una ilusión. Nuestras elecciones están predeterminadas, impulsadas por una combinación de nuestros genes y experiencias, y como reacción a estímulos ambientales.”
― Gregg Dunnett, La fuga

“When I wake the next day, I don't know where I am. I have this weird feeling that something's not right, and then I remember that everything's not right, and I wish I was still asleep.”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Things You Find in Rockpools

“logs your keystrokes”
― Gregg Dunnett, The Lornea Island Detective Club