Mark Haddon Quotes

I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.

I actually didn't really go to college. I enrolled and never showed up. Being on a college campus where we shot some of the scenes in 'The Goodwin Games'... it did make me wish that was an experience that I had.

For most of us, dreams come true only after they do not matter, Only in childhood do we ever have the chance of making dreams come true when they mean everything.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

There are lots and lots of challenges that I wished - at the time - that I had done.There are lots of occasions where there were exciting things to be done but for some reason or another it was physically impossible for us to do them. I still wouldn't mind if I was able to go down into this most impressive valley in the Antarctic, but of course those things are beyond me now.

Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.

My past is everything I failed to be.

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Sooner or later usually means too late

One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.

Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn't taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It's hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer.

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .

It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind

It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.