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"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
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"Darkness is a place that encourages us to seek light."
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"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
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"Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other."
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"Raith smiled. "There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You were made to feel desire. I was made to use it against you. It is the natural cycle. Life and death. Mating and death. Predator and Prey."Raith leaned closer with each word, and brushed his lips against Murphy's throat as he spoke. "Born mortal. Born weak. And easily taken."..."And that's only a taste, child. When you know what it is to be truly taken later this night, you will understand that your life ended the moment I wanted you."
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"Beyond the edge of universe,there's a kind of real darkness...where even the light gone astray."
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"On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before."
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"Darkness never lasts forever. Morning always comes with the lights of love to brighten our future."
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"It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity."
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"I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete."
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"If there's a place for me in Hell I hope it's next to someone like you."
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Explore more quotes by Mark Haddon
"Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect."
Books
"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."
People
"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
American
"Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person."
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"Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care."
Imagination
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
Books
"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."
Family
"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."
Chance
"When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable."
Family
"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."
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