“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, book The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket

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

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