--- ## Notes Just different to see how literal this book is LMAO found letters, mom was not dead Father very patient, just wanted things to work super interesting reading about his rationale not wanting to stay with dads not talking during conflict devoid of emotion when dad is crying, solely focused on his safety and current happiness mother had to be accomodating, but yet he is adamant on taking a level mat was accomodating by phoning school, but then circumstances changed didnt eat or sleep due to chest pain anxious 🤔 about the future of his exam ## Highlights A lie is when you say something happened which didn't happen. But there is only ever one thing which happened at a particular time and a particular place. And there are an infinite number of things which didn't happen at that time and that place. And if I think about something which didn't happen I start thinking about all the other things which didn't happen. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2j2hnpbzdjj67f822f2vek0)) Then Father banged the steering wheel with his fist and the car weaved a little bit across the dotted line in the middle of the road and he shouted, “I said leave it, for God's sake.” I could tell that he was angry because he was shouting, and I didn't want to make him angry so I didn't say anything else until we got home. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2j2mn2aar45e36hc3pacb11)) - 💭 interpreting emotions is based on social cues Also I don't know what Father means when he says “Stay out of other people's business” because I do not know what he means by “other people's business” because I do lots of things with other people, at school and in the shop and on the bus, and his job is going into other people's houses and fixing their boilers and their heating. And all of these things are other people's business. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2j370qbmr5e54pc3y33h8xf)) What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing except his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2j3ddkaxvp3kfkm794gtx9x)) takes me a long time to get used to people I do not know. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2j3kp4y4v831hqhhqszy5dw)) ### New highlights added June 15, 2023 at AM 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 ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2z0esd2811f1whjd447y3c0)) ### New highlights added June 17, 2023 at AM But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h34398jgpf1nx8vgpkb7tth1)) And then the dream is finished and I am happy. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h347p2s48nw4v7ksct447g2v)) ### New highlights added June 18, 2023 at 6:19 PM “I'm going to get an A grade. And that's why I have to go back to Swindon. Except I don't want to see Father. So I have to go to Swindon with you.” Then Mother put her hands ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h347tm5q2hg7mzmw5mj09c9p)) “I'm going to get an A grade. And that's why I have to go back to Swindon. Except I don't want to see Father. So I have to go to Swindon with you.” Then Mother put her hands ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h347tm620necfybybbq6bfry))