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This is when Christopher finds his neighbor Mrs. Shears's dog dead in her backyard with a pitchfork in his chest. “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.” -
Christopher has difficulty reading people's faces and what emotions they are showing.
“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.” -
This is because Christopher goes onto Mrs. Shears's lawn and pulls the fork out of Wellington she finds him and tells him to leave but he does not so she yells at him. “On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.” -
He decides to write a story after he talks to his teacher Siobhan and it ended up being a murder-mystery novel.
“This is a murder mystery novel.” -
Two police offers came to Mrs. Shears house to get Christopher off of her property.
“All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.” -
He says to be funny you have to tell a joke and jokes have more than one meaning the idea of words having more than one meaning confuses Christopher.
“I want my name to mean me.” -
The police arrested Christopher because they touch him and he ended up hitting one of the offerers.
“I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross, and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.”