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Into Quotes by Mark Haddon
- From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
- If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt…
- With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick…
- No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an…
- ...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings…
- ... He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a…
- And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they…
- I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this…
- I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like…
- And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And…
- And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into…
- At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations…
- ..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,…
- What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried…
- ...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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