Mark Haddon Short Quotes

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How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

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But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

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And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

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Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

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And I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

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Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.

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I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

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Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.

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Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

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And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

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All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

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He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

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You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.

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Because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

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I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

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Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

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On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

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And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

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And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.

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I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

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