There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.
Mark HaddonSiobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you just said before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds.
Mark HaddonAnd this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
Mark HaddonI knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
Mark HaddonBooks 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 Haddon