The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time Quotes
"I find it hard to imagine things which did not happen to me."
"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away."
"I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying."
"In life there are no straightforward answers at the end."
"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."
"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."
"I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking."
"It's like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film."
"If you are a detective you have to be brave, so I had no choice."
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
"Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them."
"Learn then from this story not to fear the fruits of the past, but rather to be circumspect in the future."
"No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary."
"Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them."
"I'm not like your father. Your father is a much more patient person."
"I thought that I could go and live with Mother because she was my family."
"But then I realized that there was nothing I could do which felt safe."
"I see everything. That is why I don't like new places."
"Feartotal = Fearnew place X Fearnear Father = constant."
"They never look at everything. They do what is called glancing."
"I am standing in a field that is full of grass."
"I am in a place I know, like home, or school, or the bus."
"I have seen almost everything in it beforehand."
"I can see a building with writing at the top, but it was a long way away so it was hard to read."
"I have to stay in the station to get on a train."
"People believe in God because the world is very complicated."
"And I had a red ice lolly from an ice cream van."
"I screamed for a long time and the pain in my chest hurt so much that it was hard to breathe."
"Mother took me back to the flat in another taxi."
"They were called 100 Number Puzzles and The Origins of the Universe and Nuclear Power."
"Mother made me a chart with stars on it like when I was very small."
"I tuned it halfway between two stations so that all I could hear was white noise."
"You think you're so fucking clever, don't you."
"Mother spoke very slowly and said, 'We are going back to Swindon because if we stay in London any longer... someone was going to get hurt.'"
"I tried to work out a formula to determine whether a traffic jam would be caused just by people slowing down."
"I played Minesweeper and I did the Expert Version in 174 seconds."
"Mother shouted, 'This is my house, too, in case you've forgotten.'"
"Father said, 'Is your fucking fancy man here as well?'"
"Mother came into the room and said Father had gone."
"Mother said, 'I told you. I rang your headmistress. I told her you'd do it next year.'"
"I knew I wasn't going to be able to do my maths A level."
"Mother said, 'I didn't know we'd be coming back.'"
"Mother bought me a Milkybar but I didn't eat it."
"Mrs. Shears said, 'So, has he finally dumped you, too?'"
"Siobhan said, 'You don't have to do it, Christopher. If you say you don't want to do it no one is going to be angry with you.'"
"I said, 'I want to do it,' because I don't like it when I put things in my timetable and I have to take them out again."
"Father came into the house and he and Mother shouted at each other."
"Mother said the police don't arrest people for little crimes unless you ask them."
"I didn't like waiting to find out about my maths A level."
"Siobhan said, 'Just think about today. Think about things that have happened. Especially about good things that have happened.'"
"Mother got flu and I had to spend three days with Father."
"Then I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist."