—Bueno, ¿cómo te va, capitán?
Y yo dije:
—Me va muy bien, gracias —que es lo que se supone que tienes que decir.
That was what it meant, didn’t it. Being good. You didn’t have to sink wells in Burkina Faso. You didn’t have to give away your coffee table. You just had to see things from other people’s point of view. Remember they were human.
Mark HaddonAnd it was strange because he was calling, "Christopher. . . ? Christopher. . . ?" and I could see my name written out as he was saying it. Often I can see what someone is saying written out like it is being printed on a computer screen, especially if they are in another room. But this was not on a computer screen. I could see it written really large, like it was on a big advert on the side of a bus. And it was in my mother's handwriting
Mark HaddonEs ging darum, die nötige Stärke zu finden, um das Unwohlsein zu ertragen, das es mit sich brachte, auf dieser Welt zu sein.
Mark HaddonGlauben ist das Vertrauen ins Unmögliche.
Mark HaddonVergeben und vergessen. Langsam verstand sie, was das hieß. Man konnte nicht vergessen, bevor nicht jemand anderes einem vergab.
Mark HaddonWie ist das jetzt mit der Religion bei dir? Es war nicht Neid. Eher eine Art zoologische Faszination.
Mark HaddonIch weinte, weil ich keine Schuhe hatte, bis ich einen traf, der keine Füße hatte.
Mark HaddonI like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
Mark HaddonOne person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no great difference between one another, for neither set of beliefs make us kinder or wiser.
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