Quote by Mark Haddon

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

— Mark Haddon

“So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.”

— Mark Haddon

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

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

— Mark Haddon

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

— Mark Haddon

“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

“They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”

— Mark Haddon

“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

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

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

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