Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isnโt guaranteed to pay off. Some become friends and say friends for life. Some change in our absence - or perhaps it is we who change in theirs - and we meet up again only to find that we donโt get along any more.
Mark HaddonAll the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
Mark Haddon