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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American

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Mark Haddon (9)

“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”

— Mark Haddon, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetic Expression

“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”

— Mark Haddon, amazon.com

Tagged: Comfort

“I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn’t have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn’t go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”

— Mark Haddon, amazon.com

Tagged: hurt, Pain

“I decided to leave him alone because when I am sad I want to be left alone. So I didn’t say anything else.”

— Mark Haddon, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationships

“I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn’t have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn’t go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”

— Mark Haddon, amazon.com

Tagged: hurt, Overthinking, Sleepless

“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”

— Mark Haddon, amazon.com

Tagged: Rain, Passion, Desire, Interest, Silence

“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.”

— Mark Haddon, amazon.com

Tagged: Sadness

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Sadness

“I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.”

— Mark Haddon, amazon.com

Tagged: Dogs, Faithful, Lies, emotions