The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Quotes

“Because time is not like space. And when you put something down somewhere, like a protractor or a biscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don't have a map it will still be there because a map is a representation of things that actually exist so you can find the protractor or the biscuits again. And a timetable is a map of time, except that if you don't have a timetable, time isn't there like the landing and the garden and the route to school.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“And all I could see would be stars. And stars are the places where the molecules that life is made of were constructed billions of years ago. For examples, all the iron in your blood, which stops you being anaemic, was made in a star.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“And now if I don’t know what someone is saying I ask them what they mean or I walk away.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Because time is not like space. And when you put something down somewhere, like protractor or a biscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don't have a map it will still be there because a map is representation of things that actually exist so you can find the protractor or the biscuit again. And a timetable is map of time, except that if you don't have timetable time is not there like the landing and the garden and the route to school. Because time is only the relationship between the way different things change, like the earth going round the sun and atoms vibrating and clocks ticking and day and night and waking up and going to sleep, and it's like west or nor-nor-east wich won't exist when the earth stops existing and falls into the sun because it is only a relationship between the North Pole and the South Pole and everywhere else, like Mogadishu and Sunderland and Canberra.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“So, if you change, 2 times out of 3 you get a car. And if you stick, you only get a car 1 time out of 3. And this shows that intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you work out the right answer.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“I numeri primi sono ciò che rimane una volta eliminati tutti gli schemi: penso che i numeri primi siano come la vita. Sono molto logici ma non si riesce mai a scoprirne le regole, anche se si passa tutto il tempo a pensarci su.”
― Marco Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time