Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.

Mark Haddon

Mots clés sadness

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When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don't mix with the earth for a very long time until the wood of the coffin rots.

But Mother was cremated. This means that she was put into a coffin and burned and ground up and turned into ash and smoke. I do not know what happens to the ash and I couldn't ask at the creamatorium because I didn't go to the funeral. But the smoke goes out of the chimney and into the air and sometimes I look up and I think that there are molecules of Mother up there, or in clouds over Africa or the Antarctic, or coming down as rain in the rain forests in Brazil, or snow somewhere.

Mark Haddon

Mots clés burial cremation

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And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on the earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo.

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I want my name to mean me.

Mark Haddon

Mots clés existentialism

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.. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.

Mark Haddon

Mots clés humor simile rhetoric

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... a rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it because the person who is asking it already knows the answer.

Mark Haddon

Mots clés rhetorical-questions

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... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

Mark Haddon

Mots clés time structure

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... I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

Mark Haddon

Mots clés inspirational self-confidence achievement

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Siobhan dice che se si solleva un sopracciglio, questo gesto può significare molte cose differenti. Può voler dire: “Voglio fare sesso con te”, ma può anche essere inteso come: “Hai appena detto una cosa veramente stupida”.

Mark Haddon

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Io non racconto mai bugie. Mia madre diceva sempre che dipendeva dal fatto che sono una brava persona. Invece non dipende dal fatto che sono una brava persona. È così perché non sono capace di raccontare bugie.

Mark Haddon

Mots clés bugie

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