Blue blooded

I read a book after quite some time - "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time" by Mark Haddon. This is while am trying to read Wolf Hall at the same time. But then, the latter is a book I take to my classes since most of my professors are busy trying to explain obscure facts about movies like "Judwa" and another Jeetendra flick I forget the name of.


Haddon has given an amazing insight of how autistic people look at the world. Christopher, the protagonist, a 15-year old, can wonderfully relate to the world of mathematics but cannot understand how life functions. Trying to categorize everything into black and white like in mathematics, Christopher shies away from the unknown and looks for a pattern in everything. As Haddon proceeds into the story, he's given some amazing quotes through the character of Christopher which makes one think (or made me think). I'd like to list some down here:

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.

I want my name to mean me.

You could still want something that is very unlikely to happen. 

When people tell you what to do, it's usually very confusing and does not make sense.

People break rules all the time.

 I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

 Mrs. Alexander was doing what is called chatting, where people say things to each other which aren't questions and answers and aren't connected.

 In life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.

People think they're not computers because they have feelings and computers don't have feelings. But feelings are just having a picture on the screen in your head of what is going to happen tomorrow or next year, or what might have happened instead of what did happen, and if it is a happy picture they smile and if it is a sad picture they cry.

 I like timetables, because they make sure you don't get lost in time.

 Many of these lines might not mean much to you if you haven't yet read the book. But I wanted to get these lines written somewhere to make a record so that I could come back to them whenever I wanted to relive the book.

I have definitely missed on many other quotes which I relished while reading the book. Looking for another such amazingly written novel.

PS1: The chapters in the book are numbered in prime numbers. Very well captured the thought of the title of this post
PS2: Suggest some more thought provoking books if you can.