Curious Incident Siobhan Quotes

Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you just said before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds.

And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of it being new.

Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.

Mrs. Forbes said that hating yellow and brown is just being silly. And Siobhan said that she shouldn't say things like that and everyone has favorite colors. And Siobhan was right. But Mrs. Forbes was a bit right, too. Because it is sort of being silly. But 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. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others. It is like being in a restaurant like when Father takes me out to a Berni Inn sometimes and 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 favorite foods and you choose these, and you have foods you dno't like and you don't choose these, and then it is simple.

Siobhan dice che se si solleva un sopracciglio, questo gesto può significare molte cose differenti. Può voler dire: “Voglio fare sesso con te”, ma può anche essere inteso come: “Hai appena detto una cosa veramente stupida”.

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. I'm meant to say that they have learning difficulties or that they have special needs. But this is stupid because everyone has learning difficulties because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult and also everyone has special needs, like Father, who has to carry a little packet of artificial sweetening tablets around with him to put in his coffee to stop him from getting fat, or Mrs. Peters, who wears a beige-colored hearing aid, or Siobhan, who has glasses so thick that they give you a headache if you borrow them, and none of these people are Special Needs, even if they have special needs. But Siobhan said we have to use those words because people used to call children like the children at school spaz and crip and mong, which were nasty words. But that is stupid too because sometimes the children from the school down the road see us in the street when we're getting off the bus and they shout, "Special Needs! Special Needs!" But I don't take any notice because I don't listen to what other people say and only sticks and stones can break my bones and I have a Swiss Army knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self-defense and I won't go to prison.

Siobhan said that I should write something I would want to read myself.

Siobhan said that I should write something I would want to read myself. Mostly I read books about science and maths. I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, "I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which whose clench who do not depend on stimulus." What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor does Siobhan or Mr. Jeavons. I have asked them.

And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of being new. For example, Siobhan showed me that you can wet your finger and rub the edge of a thin glass and make a singing noise. And you can put different amounts of water in different glasses and they make different notes because they have what are called different resonant frequencies, and you can play a tune like Three Blind Mice. And lots of people have thin glasses in their houses and they don’t know you can do this.

I find people confusing. This is for two main reasons. The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can mean lots of different things. It can mean "I want to do sex with you" and it can also mean "I think that what you just said was very stupid." Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose, it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry, and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you said just before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds. The second main reason is that people often talk using metaphors. These are examples of metaphors I laughed my socks off. He was the apple of her eye. They had a skeleton in the cupboard. We had a real pig of a day. The dog was stone dead. The word metaphor means carrying something from one place to another, and it comes from the Greek words meta (which means from one place to another) and ferein (which means to carry), and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining an apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.

Nemám rád normální romány. V normálních románech lidi říkají věci jako: „Jsem protkána železem, stříbrem a žilkami usazenin. Nedokážu se sevřít v tvrdou pěst, již zatínají ti, kteří jsou nezávislí.“ Co to znamená? Nevím. Neví to ani táta. Ani Siobhan, ani pan Jeavons. Ptal jsem se jich.

to say that they have learning difficulties or that they have special needs. But this is stupid because everyone has learning difficulties because learning to speak French or understanding Relativity is difficult, and also everyone has special needs, like father who has to carry a little packet of artificial sweetening tablets around with him to put in his coffee to stop him getting fat, or Mrs peters who wears a beige-coloured hearing aid, or Siobhan who has glasses so thick that they give you a headache if you borrow them, and none of these people are Special Needs, even if they have special needs.

I find people confusing. This is for two main reasons. The first main reason is that people do a lot of talking without using any words. Siobhan says that if you raise one eyebrow it can mean lots of different things. It can mean "I want to do sex with you" and it can also mean "I think that what you said was very stupid.

Decisi che avrei scoperto chi aveva ucciso Wellington, anche se mio padre mi aveva ordinato di non ficcare il naso negli affari degli altri. Perché non faccio sempre quello che mi dicono di fare. Perché quando qualcuno mi dà degli ordini, di solito sono cose che mi confondono e che non hanno nessun senso. Per esempio quando dicono “Sta’ zitto”, ma non specificano per quanto tempo devi stare zitto. Oppure se su un cartello vedi NON CALPESTARE IL PRATO, in realtà dovrebbe esserci scritto NON CALPESTARE IL PRATO INTORNO A QUESTO CARTELLO oppure NON CALPESTARE IL PRATO DI QUESTO PARCO, perché invece ci sono molti prati su cui si può camminare. La gente non rispetta mai le regole. Mio padre per esempio va a più di 90 chilometri all’ora nelle strade dove non si devono superare i 90 chilometri all’ora, e qualche volta guida dopo aver bevuto e spesso non si mette la cintura di sicurezza quando prende il furgone. E nella Bibbia si legge Non uccidere, ma ci sono state le Crociate e due Guerre Mondiali e la Guerra del Golfo e in ognuna di queste guerre dei Cristiani hanno ucciso dei loro simili. E poi non lo capisco, quando dice “Non ficcare il naso negli affari degli altri”, perché non so cosa sono gli “affari degli altri”; io faccio un mucchio di cose con “gli altri”, a scuola, nel negozio e sul pulmino, e il suo lavoro consiste nell’andare a casa di altre persone e riparare i loro scaldabagni e l’impianto di riscaldamento. Anche questo vuol dire farsi gli affari degli altri. Siobhan mi capisce. Quando mi ordina di non fare una cosa mi dice esattamente cos’è che non devo fare. Così mi piace. Per esempio una volta mi ha detto: - Non devi mai prendere a pugni Sarah o picchiarla in nessun modo, Christopher. Anche se è lei a colpirti per prima. Se succede di nuovo, allontanati, rimani immobile e conta da 1 a 50, poi vieni da me a raccontarmi cosa ha fatto o parlane con qualche altro insegnante. Un’altra volta mi ha detto: - Se vuoi andare sull’altalena e c’è sempre qualcuno sopra, non spingerlo via. Chiedi se puoi fare un giro anche tu. E poi aspetta fino a quando non ha finito. Gli altri però quando ti danno un ordine non si comportano in questo modo. E allora sono io a decidere cosa fare e cosa non fare.