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“You were born original don't die a copy”
― Ben Mikaelsen

“Rain Man! I had seen the film. I did not identify in any way with Rain Man, who was inarticulate, dependent, and unemployable. A society of Rain Men would be dysfunctional. A society of Don Tillmans would be efficient, safe, and pleasant for all of us.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect

“Highly intelligent people are often bullied. As a result of being different. That difference being high intelligence.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect

“To the world’s most perfect woman.’ It was lucky my father was not present. Perfect is an absolute that cannot be modified, like unique or pregnant. My love for Rosie was so powerful that it had caused my brain to make a grammatical error.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect

“But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept”
― Graeme Simsion, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, The Rosie Project

“I knew so much shit and I still couldn’t fix myself.”
― Graeme Simsion, 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, The Rosie Project

“Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“You want a beer?” she said. A beer! At 3:01 a.m. Ridiculous. “Yes, please.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“There was also a dark-haired man of about thirty (BMI approximately twenty) who appeared not to have shaved for several days, and, beside him, the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. In contrast to the complexity of Bianca’s costume, she was wearing a green dress with zero decoration, so minimal that it did not even have straps to hold it in place. It took me a moment to realise that its wearer was Rosie.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“I have heard the word ‘stunning’ used to describe women, but this was the first time I had actually been stunned by one.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“If you shut yourself down, you’re wasting two days of your life that someone is trying to make exciting and productive and fun for you.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Amazing. She retains a professor of genetics, an alien of extraordinary abilities, to help find her father, she travels for a week, spending almost every minute of the waking day with him, yet when she wants the answer to a question on genetics, she goes to the Internet.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“How are you going to kiss a girl if you won’t share her ice-cream?”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Difficulties are inevitable,” I said. “Major projects require persistence.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“You are the world’s most perfect woman. All other women are irrelevant. Permanently. No Botox or implants will be required.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Time has been redefined. Previous rules no longer apply. Alcohol is hereby declared mandatory in the Rosie Time Zone.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“In the last eight weeks I had experienced two of the three best times of my adult life, assuming all visits to the Museum of Natural History were treated as one event. They had both been with Rosie. Was there a correlation? It was critical to find out.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“I began the second half of my life by making coffee.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“I was suddenly angry. I wanted to shake not just Lydia but the whole world of people who do not understand the difference between control of emotion and lack of it, and who make a totally illogical connection between inability to read others’ emotions and inability to experience their own.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect

“Rationality was returning to deal with the mess that emotions had created.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Effect

“Never underestimate yourself”
― Carolyn Mackler, The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things

“Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.”
― E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver