“Pavel is not a doctor any more, Bruno' said Maria quietly. 'But he was. In another life. Before he came here” — John Boyne Copy Share Image
There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt had once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart’s… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“I had never considered myself to be a dishonest person, hating the idea that I was capable of such mendacity and deceit,… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“If there is one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“Did I ever tell you that they nearly cut my dick off?’ ‘No,’ I said, uncertain whether this was something that had… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
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… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“Regrets and apologies are all very well, but there's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“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… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“Life is suffering. Until the great day of judgement, when peace and equanimity may be restored for those who are pure of… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“Bruno was jealous, he had to wear stupid pants en shoes while the boys at the other side of the fence were wearing nice… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
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… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“Maybe there were no villains in my mother’s story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
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… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see,” said Julian, displaying an understanding of the universe far beyond his years.… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay. But… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“For a moment he considered running across the platform to tell people about the empty seats in the carriage, but he decided not to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“Pavel is not a doctor any more, Bruno' said Maria quietly. 'But he was. In another life. Before he came here” — John Boyne Copy Share Image
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