John Boyne Quotes

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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?

  John Boyne

  Differences, People, Uniforms

  John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.103, Random House

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• Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

  John Boyne

  Sitting, Pajamas, Miserable

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• 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

  Memories, Heart, Forget

  John Boyne (2009). “Mutiny On The Bounty”, p.162, Random House

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• Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

  John Boyne

  Enemy, Pajamas, Supposed To Be

  "Fictional character: Bruno". "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Their lost voices must continue to be heard.

  John Boyne

  Voice, Lost, Heard

  "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas". Book by John Boyne, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2006.

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

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  Thinking, Painful

  John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.83, Random House

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• (J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.

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  Mean, Ust, Normal

  John Boyne (2012). “The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket”, p.92, Random House

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• Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in the evening and told stories about how things were so much better when they were children and they'd had nowadays. He thought that all the boys and girls who lived there would be in different groups, playing tennis or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch on the ground. As it turned out, all the things he thought might be there-wern't.'' -The boy in the striped Pajamas

  John Boyne

  Girl, Football, Children

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• The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.

  John Boyne

  Life, America, Waiting

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• But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.

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  Brother, Speak, Moments

  John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.158, Random House

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• 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.

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  Boat, Ask Me, Wells

  John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.60, Random House

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• The dot that became a speck that became a blob that became a figure that became a boy

  John Boyne

  Boys, Dots, Figures

  John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.107, Random House

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• Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

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  Night, Men, Sky

  "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas". Book by John Boyne, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2006.

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• We all are [normal]. Their idea of normal just happens to be different to some other people's idea of normal. But this is the world we live in. Some people simply cannot accept something that is outside of their experience.

  John Boyne

  Ideas, People, Different

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• Bruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away."

  John Boyne

  Dad, Clothes, People

  "Fictional characters". "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• 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.

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  Heart, Reason, Manners

  John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.66, Random House

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• I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would be the kind of stories you would write in an adult novel only they just happen to feature a child at the center of them.

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  Children, Book, Writing

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• He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

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  Character, Hands, My Best Friend

  John Boyne (2016). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.329, Random House

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• . . .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

  Trying, Way, Sides

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• The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.' 'Ah, those people,' said Father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. 'Those people...well, they're not people at all, Bruno.' Bruno frowned. 'They're not?' he asked, unsure what Father meant by that.

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  Father, Distance, People

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• I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

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  Life, Thinking, Breathing

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• Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny body anymore, but to slip away and sail to the door and rise up into the sky, gliding through the clouds until it was very far away.'' -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

  John Boyne

  Boys, Clouds, Doors

  John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.178, Random House

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• I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve the problems for them. They could use their own ingenuity, use their own talents to solve whatever the issue was. And I like that still. I think that children want to read about heroic children. They don't want to read about children that have to be saved all the time.

  John Boyne

  Children, Book, Reading

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• It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before.

  John Boyne

  Unknown Worlds, Finding Happiness, Knows

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• ...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.

  John Boyne

  Letting Go, Hands, Holocaust

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