The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25) Quotes

“But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have a Swiss Army knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self-defense and I won't go to prison”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have a Swiss Army knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self-defense and I won't go to prison”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“What actually happens when you die is 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.

When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which mean that they don't mix with the earth for a very long time until the wood of the coffin rots.

But Mother was cremated. This means she was put into a coffin and burned and ground up and turned into ash and smoke. I do not know what happens to the ash and I couldn't ask at the crematorium because I didn't go to the funeral. But the smoke goes out of the chimney and into the air and sometimes I look up into the sky and I think there are molecules of Mother up there, or in clouds over Africa or the Antarctic, or coming down as rain in the rain forests in Brazil, or in snow somewhere.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“I asked Mr. Wise if he knew who had killed Wellington on Thursday night.
He said, 'Bloody hell, policemen really are getting younger aren't they?' Then he laughed.
I do not like people laughing at me, so I turned and walked away.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“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.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“These are some of my behavioral problems... P) Hating France”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“We're [Ed and Christopher] not that different, me and you." [said Ed]”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“I needed to keep my watch on because I needed to know exactly what time it was. And when they tried to take it off me I screamed, so they let me keep it on.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“I find people confusing.
This is for two main reasons.
The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can mean lots of different things. It can mean "I want to do sex with you" and it can also mean "I think that what you said was very stupid.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“Lo que de verdad pasa cuando te mueres es que tu cerebro deja de funcionar y el cuerpo se pudre, ... Todas sus moléculas se descompusieron en otras moléculas y pasaron a la tierra y se las comieron los gusanos y pasaron a las plantas. Si vamos y cavamos al cabo de 1000 años, hasta el esqueleto habrá desaparecido. Pero eso está bien, porque ahora forma parte de las flores y del manzano y del matorral de espino.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“Es como cuando estás alterado y sujetas la radio contra la oreja y la sintonizas entre emisoras y lo único que se oye es eso que llaman ruido blanco, y entonces subes el volumen al máximo y sabes que está a salvo porque no puedes oír nada más.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“Me gustan los perros. Uno siempre sabe qué está pensando un perro. Tienen cuatro estados de ánimo. Contento, triste, enfadado y concentrado. Además, los perros son fieles y no dicen mentiras porque no hablan.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. [...] there are billions of planets where there is no life, but there is no one on those planets with brains to notice. And it is like if everyone in the world was tossing coins eventually someone would get 5,698 heads in a row and they would think they were very special. But they wouldn't be because there would be millions of people who didn't get 5,698 heads.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance... there are billions of planets where there is no life, but there is no one on those planets with brains to notice. And it is like if everyone in the world was tossing coins eventually someone would get 5,698 heads in a row and they would think they were very special. But they wouldn't be because there would be millions of people who didn't get 5,698 heads.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“Простые числа – это то, что остается, когда вы убираете все классификации и шаблоны. Я думаю, что простые числа похожи на жизнь. Они очень логичные, но вы никогда не сможете выработать для них правила, даже если будете постоянно думать только об этом.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“And when we look at things we think we're just looking out of our eyes
like we're looking out of little windows and there's a person inside our head,
but we're not. We're looking at a screen inside our heads, like a computer
screen.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)

“when I'mstanding on the top of a very tall building and there are thousands of housesand cars and people below me and my head is so full of all these things thatI'm afraid that I'm going to forget to stand up straight and hang on to the railand I'm going to fall over and be killed.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SparkNotes Literature Guide) (Volume 25)