my brother gave me this novel written by Mark Haddon as my 20-year-old birthday gift =).. it was quite a pleasant read.. i begin to gain an insight of the world of autistic person through Christopher, the main character in this novel.. i wish Christopher good luck and hope he can achieve his dream of becoming an astronaut one day =)
Below are some interesting quotes by Christopher.. despite his behavioral problems(scream when confused, scream and hit people when people touch him, like to be alone, don't talk to strangers..), Christopher has a remarkablly clever thinking and he is very talented in Maths and Physics
"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them." very cool thinking
"... Mother was cremated... I don't 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 that 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." very touching
"I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to cary on living and they don't like that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish." very mean but true
"Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet."
"Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or something about the earth's magnetic field, or it might be some new force altogether. And then ghosts won't be mysteries. They will be like electricity and rainbows and nonstick frying pans." agree!
"And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don't even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in your life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means that they are so small you don't have to take them into account when you are calculating something." very meaningful
"People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves." really impressive
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