John Boyne Quotes

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

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He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.

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Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.

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What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

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He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

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And soon afterwards this manuscript will appear, my final book... There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will for ever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.

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