And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen. Mark Haddon
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  2. You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. - Brian Tracy
  3. Love is the only future God offers. - Victor Hugo
  4. Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. - Jonathan Safran Foer
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More Quotes By Mark Haddon
  1. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them
  2. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
  3. 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 some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that...
  4. And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on 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...
  5. I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.
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