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John Boyne Quotes
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People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren’t actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them. (John Boyne Quotes)
It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person, you see. We are GeorgyandZoya (John Boyne Quotes)
... Nine-year-old boys usually turn ten at some point. It’s the nineteen-year-olds who have difficulty turning twenty (John Boyne Quotes)
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic (John Boyne Quotes)
It’s not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing (John Boyne Quotes)
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer (John Boyne Quotes)
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder. (John Boyne Quotes)
I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence (John Boyne Quotes)
I don’t buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay. (John Boyne Quotes)
Throughout my teenage years, I read ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories. (John Boyne Quotes)
. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all. (John Boyne Quotes)
Sitting around miserable all day won’t make you any happier (John Boyne Quotes)
Bruno: We’re not supposed to be friends, you and me. We’re meant to be enemies. Did you know that? (John Boyne Quotes)
Don’t make it worse by thinking it’s more painful than it actually is (John Boyne Quotes)
In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all (John Boyne Quotes)
...only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all (John Boyne Quotes)
The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always strange, unidentifiable sounds seeping into his room from the tiny gaps where the windowpanes weren’t sealed together correctly. At those moments he could always tell there was life outside, even if all that life was fast asleep. It was a silence that wasn’t silence at all (John Boyne Quotes)
He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too (John Boyne Quotes)
The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy (John Boyne Quotes)
It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be (John Boyne Quotes)
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 (John Boyne Quotes)
Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking (John Boyne Quotes)
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know (John Boyne Quotes)
What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms? (John Boyne Quotes)
Seated opposite me in the railway carriage, the elderly lady in the fox - fur shawl was recalling some of the murders that she had committed over the years (John Boyne Quotes)
Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one (John Boyne Quotes)
I think I'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive (John Boyne Quotes)
Astonishing how everyone is willing to go abroad to fight for the rights of foreigners while having such little concern for those of their own countrymen at home (John Boyne Quotes)
Just because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you (John Boyne Quotes)
There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them (John Boyne Quotes)
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