“sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“He said, 'are you telling the truth?' I said, 'Yes. I always tell the truth.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Also I didn't have 20/20 vision which you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“What they failed to teach you at school was that the whole business of being human just got messier and more complicated… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“And Father said, “Christopher, do you understand that I love you?” And I said “Yes,” because loving someone is helping them when… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“A lie is when you say something happened which didn't happen. But there is only ever one thing which happened at a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen. — Mark Haddon Copy Share
“So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share
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… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end — Mark Haddon Copy Share
“when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn’t. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. I” — Mark Haddon Copy Share
“They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share
“Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
“And it was strange because he was calling, "Christopher. . . ? Christopher. . . ?" and I could see my name written out… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand. — Mark Haddon Copy Share
“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why she was… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books. — Mark Haddon Copy Share
