“… 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 Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“" he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, "Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon.”John Boyne Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way".”John Boyne book The AbsolutistSource: The Absolutist