On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
Mark HaddonJane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
Mark HaddonIt 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.
Mark Haddon