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Mark Haddon quotes about sky

English Novelist September 26, 1962

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And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you... ... ...and that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in your life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means that they are so small you don't have to take them into account when you are calculating something. Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon quote: "Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark,..."
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. Mark Haddon
People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And their... Mark Haddon
..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling. Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon quote: "and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the..."
...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible. Mark Haddon

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