Dogs and Monsters Quotes

“The truth is dull fare and we are dangerously enamoured of the extraordinary. These days if I read or hear some glittering tale and find my attention being held fast, I ask myself, What suffering might these fabulous events conceal? Where am I being encouraged not to look? Who benefits if I am distracted and do not witness the mundane round of ordinary cruelty?”
― Mark Haddon, Dogs and Monsters: Stories

“These days if I read or hear some glittering tale and find my attention being held fast, I ask myself, What suffering might these fabulous events conceal? Where am I being encouraged not to look? Who benefits if I am distracted and do not witness the mundane round of ordinary cruelty?”
― Mark Haddon, Dogs and Monsters: Stories

“Pandora's Box. She tried to remember the story. Was it the good things which escaped and were lost? Or was it the evil things which got out and caused havoc? A woman refused to do what she was told and was punished for it. That was the real message, of course.”
― Mark Haddon, Dogs and Monsters: Stories

“People are seldom interested in the truth. It is so much easier to believe in the macabre, the preposterous.”
― Mark Haddon, Dogs and Monsters: Stories