"I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else"

-- Mark Haddon

#Father Quotes #Two Quotes #White Quotes

“I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.”
“Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.”
“All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.”

Source : Cory Doctorow (2006). “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”, p.172, Macmillan
“The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.”
“The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.”
“Heavy booze is a big time vacation, but you come back with a headache.”

Source : Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.
“People think that writing is writing, but actually writing is editing. Otherwise, you're just taking notes”
“Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move”

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