Top 50 Quotes You Need for Your Essay from ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’

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#11: “I used to think that Mother and Father might get divorced. That was because they had lots of arguments and sometimes they hated each other. This was because of the stress of looking after someone who has Behavioural Problems like I have.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗, about mother and father
• 技术：资本化，事实语气，简单的语言
• 第七章3

Truth and Lies

#12: “He had a very hairy nose. It looked as if there were two very tiny mice hiding in his nostrils.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• 技术：幽默，比喻，截短的句子，荒谬
• Chapter 31

#13: “Metaphors… should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people do not have skeleton in their cupboards.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Humour
• Chapter 29

#14: “And I said ‘Yes’, because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and father look after me when I get into trouble… and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me”

• 角色：克里斯托弗, about Father
• 技术：跑步句子，重复
• Chapter 137

#15: “This is a murder mystery novel”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• 技术：第一人称叙述，元，截断的句子
• 第七章

#16: “This will not be a funny book. I cannot tell jokes because I do not understand them.”

• Characters: Christpoher
• Technique: Meta, truncated sentence, irony
• Chapter 13

#17: “I do not tell lies. Mother used to say this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I can’t tell lies.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗, mother
• 技术：事实语气，截断的句子
• Chapter 37

#18: “This is called a white lie. A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• 技术：理由，截断，讽刺
• 第七章9

#19: “It’s bloody hard telling the truth all the time.”

• 角色：父亲
• Technique: Colloquial langauge
• Chapter 167

#20: “Mother had not had a heart attack. Mother had not died. Mother had been alive all the time. And Father had lied about this”

• 角色：克里斯托弗, about Father
• 技术：截断的句子, cumulative listing, repetition
• Chapter 157

Growing Up

#21: “It was like all the signs were shouting in my head”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Simile
• Chapter 179

#22: “I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? And I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Rhetorical question, cumulative listing
• Chapter 233

#23: “Normally I would have got more and more frightened if I was walking to school because I had never done it before.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: internal monologue, repetition
• Chapter 179

＃24：“我不喜欢陌生人，因为我不喜欢我从未见过的人”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Anaphora
• Chapter 67

#25: “So talking to other people in our street was brave. But if you are going to do detective work you have to be brave, so I had no choice.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Factual tone, statement
• Chapter 67

＃26：“如果您是侦探，您必须冒险，这是一个超级美好的一天，这意味着这是冒险的好日子，所以我说：“您知道Shears先生吗？”哪个在聊天”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• 技术：资本化，由于缺乏逻辑而具有讽刺意味
• Chapter 67

#27: “Sometimes you look at the menu and you have to choose what you are going to have. But you don’t know if you are going to like something because you haven’t tasted it yet, so you have favourite foods and you choose these, and you have foods you don’t like and you don’t choose these, and then it is simple”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Run-on sentence, breaking the fourth wall
• Chapter 131

＃28：“然后我以为我可以和母亲一起生活，因为她是我的家人，我知道她住在哪里”

• 角色：克里斯托弗, about mother
• Technique: Internal monologue, run-on sentence
• Chapter 179

#29: “And I said, “I have to go back because I have to sit my maths A level.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗, talking to his mother
• Technique: Anaphora
• Chapter 233

Unpredictability of Life

＃30：“沃森医生谈到福尔摩斯（Sherlock Holmes）……他的思想……正忙于努力制定某些计划，所有这些奇怪且显然是脱节的情节都可以安装。这就是我要写这本书要做的事情。”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• 技术：互文性，元
• Chapter 107

＃31：“那只狗死了，有一个花园叉从狗身上伸出来”

• 角色：克里斯托弗, the dog
• Technique: Factual tone, lack of emotive language, lack of descriptive language
• Chapter 2

#32: “Father said that he didn’t know what kind of heart attack she had and now wasn’t the moment to be asking questions like that”

• 角色：克里斯托弗, about Father
• Technique: Humour
• Chapter 53

#33: “You have to learn to trust me … And I don’t care how long it takes…”

• 角色：父亲，克里斯托弗
• 技术：命令式语言
• Chapter 233

#34: “I like the police. They have uniforms and numbers and you know what they are meant to be doing.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗, about police men
• 技术：截断的句子, factual statement, irony
• Chapter 11

#35: “Mr Jeavons said that I liked maths because it was safe… what he meant was that maths wasn’t like life because in life there are no straightforward answers at the end.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Simile
• Chapter 101

#36: “It was an envelope addressed to me and it was lying under my book in the shirt box with some other envelopes. I picked it up. It had never been opened.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• 技术：截短的句子，观察性语气
• Chapter 149

＃37：“这就是为什么我喜欢时间表，因为它们确保您不会及时迷路。”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• 技术：逻辑语气，隐喻
• 第193章

Order and Logic

＃38：“我认为质数就像生活。它们非常合乎逻辑，但您永远无法制定规则，即使您花了所有的时间思考它们。”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Simile
• Chapter 19

＃39：“所以我做了一个数学问题以使我的头更清楚”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Factual tone
• 第191章

＃40：“我必须闭上眼睛，将双手放在耳朵和gro吟中，就像按下Ctrl + Alt + Del，关闭程序并关闭计算机并重新启动一样”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• 技术：互文性，图形，比喻
• 第181章

#41: “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.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• 技术：Anaphora，Tricolon
• Chapter 101

#42: “For example, if people say things which don’t make sense, like, “See you later, alligator,” or “You’ll catch your death in that,” I do a Search and see if I have ever heard someone say this before.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗，关于社会
• 技术：押韵，成语
• Chapter 113

#43: “I had to get out of the house. Father had murdered Wellington. That meant he could murder me”

• 角色：克里斯托弗, about Father
• Technique: Tricolon, logical tone, irony
• Chapter 167

＃44：“这很有趣，因为经济学家不是真正的科学家，而且逻辑学家更清楚地思考，但是数学家是最好的。”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• 技术：笑话，讽刺，荒谬的语气
• 第181章

#45: “In the bus on the way to school next morning we passed 4 cars in a row, which meant that it was a Good Day, so I decided not to be sad about Wellington.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Superstitious tone which is ironic
• Chapter 47

#46: “Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• 技术：逻辑语气
• Chapter 47

#47: “Father said I was never to mention Mr Shear’s name in our house again and that he was an evil man and maybe that meant he was the person who killed Wellington”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• 技术：Tricolon，逻辑语气，荒谬
• Chapter 89

#48: “I don’t feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr Shears isn’t around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn’t real and doesn’t exist. And that would be stupid”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Irony, truncated sentence
• Chapter 109

＃49：“我的记忆就像一部电影。这就是为什么我真的很擅长记住事情，例如我在这本书中写下的对话，人们穿的衣服以及他们闻起来的样子”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Simile, cumulative listing
• Chapter 113

#50: “Which meant that the letter was posted on 16 October 1997, which was 18 months after Mother had died.”

• 角色：克里斯托弗
• Technique: Factual tone
• Chapter 139