“Regrets and apologies are all very well, but 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. They're like brands.”

—  John Boyne

Source: Mutiny on the Bounty

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Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction 1971

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