The Pier Falls Quotes

“Snow... blots and softens the top of every object like ice on a plum pudding. Hedges, telegraph wires, cars, postboxes, recycling bins. The world is losing its edges. Look upwards and it seems as if the stars themselves are being poured from the sky and turn out not to be vast and fiery globes after all but tiny, frozen things which melt in the palm of your hand.”
― Mark Haddon, The Pier Falls: And Other Stories

“De pronto estaba solo de nuevo, en la oscuridad total de la cueva, asustado y aterido, y quería regresar a mi pesadilla.”
― Mark Haddon, El hundimiento del muelle

“Y cuando los poderes fácticos intentan negarte tu historia, se supone que tienes derecho a reescribirla tú mismo.”
― Mark Haddon, El hundimiento del muelle

“¿Era tan estúpido aspirar a que todo el mundo recordara tu nombre dentro de cuatrocientos años?”
― Mark Haddon, El hundimiento del muelle

“¿qué haces cuando sucede lo más extraordinario que pueda ocurrir y sigues con vida?”
― Mark Haddon, El hundimiento del muelle

“porque en el fondo es cómodo que te hagan daño de una manera que conoces tan bien, la de toda la vida.”
― Mark Haddon, El hundimiento del muelle

“Piensa en lo que se debe tener para llevar ese tipo de vida y comprende que la riqueza la ha privado de una capacidad que ahora necesita.”
― Mark Haddon, El hundimiento del muelle

“(...) Consequently they never learn how to make a compromise or earn respect, they never need to imagine how the world might appear from the point of view of another person, they never truly love and they are never truly loved.”
― Mark Haddon, The Pier Falls: And Other Stories

“(...) she keeps her distance by pretending to be more foreign and less intelligent that she is, misusing words and faking bafflement at quirky native customs, and is both insulted and relieved that none of them see through the blatant subterfuge.”
― Mark Haddon, The Pier Falls: And Other Stories

“How alike they are, she and her mother, these blank sheets on which men have written their stories, the white paper under the words, making all their achievements possible and contributing nothing to the meaning. She”
― Mark Haddon, The Pier Falls

“She is off the heart's map and her compass is spinning.”
― Mark Haddon, The Pier Falls: And Other Stories

“He is the only man she has ever loved, and he has dumped her like ballast. She needs to find an explanation that does not make her a fool and him an animal, but every thought of him is a knife turning in the wound love made.”
― Mark Haddon, The Pier Falls: And Other Stories