Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

(All by the narrator, Christopher John Francis Boon.)


I decided to leave him alone because when I am sad I want to be left alone.

(p 21)

It takes me a long time to get used to people I do not know.

(p 35)

I don’t like swimming because I don’t like taking my clothes off.

(p 77)

I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

(p 103)

And then I Formulated a Plan. And that made me feel better because there was something in my head that had an order and a pattern and I just had to follow the instructions one after the other.

(p 132)

And then the countryside started and there were fields and cows and horses and a bridge and a farm and more houses and lots of little roads with cars on. And that made me think that there must be millions of miles of train track in the world and they all go past houses and roads and rivers and fields, and that made me think how many people must be in the world and they all have houses and roads to travel on and cars and pets and clothes and all eat lunch and go to bed and have names and this made my head hurt, too.

(p 161)

These are just the best ones, there very many more which made me think “yes, that’s precise”!



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