significant quotes
"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" (Haddon 12).
"I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I can't tell lies... This is another reason why I don't like proper novels, because they are lies about things which didn't happen and they make me feel shaky and scared. And this is why everything I have written here is true" (Haddon 20).
"Then, when I've got a degree in maths, or physics, or maths and physics, I will be able to get a job and earn lots of money and I will be able to pay someone who can look after me and cook my meals and wash my clothes, or i will get a lady to marry me and be my wife and she can look after me so I can have company and not be on my own" (Haddon 45).
"Then I stopped reading the letter because I felt sick. Mother had not had a heart attack. Mother had not died. Mother had been alive all the time. And Father had lied about this" (Haddon 112).
"Father had murdered Wellington. That meant he could murder me, because I couldn't trust him, even though he had said 'Trust me,' because he had told a lie about a big thing" (Haddon 122).३