Mark Haddon Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word "metaphor" is a metaphor. I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining and apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.

  Mark Haddon

  Lying, Mean, Eye

• I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

  Mark Haddon

  Eye, Lazy, Too Late

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

• How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

  Mark Haddon

  Eye

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