Bee > Bee's Quotes

“And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.”
― Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother

“Metaphors are lies.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“You love someone, you've got to let something go.”
― Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother

“I want my name to mean me.”
― Mark Haddon (Author), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word "metaphor" is a metaphor.

I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining and apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“...and where shall we go from here? The Library is vast and infinite.”
― Hideyuki Kurata, R.O.D. Read or Die: Yomiko Readman 1

“Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.”
― Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1

“Just be yourself and you'll be fine”
― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 1