The Red House
Mark Haddon
Top 10 Best Quotes
“One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no great difference between one another, for neither set of beliefs make us kinder or wiser.”
“It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.”
“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.”
“How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.”
“...companionship refused is worse than loneliness.”
“Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing becoming another. Like a flame on the end of a match. Wood turning into smoke. If only we could burn brighter. A barn roaring in the night.”
“Maybe it wasn't God after all, maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.”
“Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.”
“People disappear, leaving only bodies that flicker on and off in beds in time with the steady toggle of the dark.”
“How do you remember this stuff? But why had she forgotten? That was the real question.”
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Book Keywords:
inspiration, time, strength-through-adversity, loneliness
