"...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
"He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth."
"Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is."
"What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?"
"He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs."
"Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one"
"Let's not play games, Mr. Cratchett," I replied. "I wanted to let you know that I'll be coming in for an appointment with Mr. Raisin on Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock. I shall need about an hour an..."
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - too sad story. This book is very good and sad"
"He pushed his two feet together and shot his right arm in the air before clicking his two heels together and saying in a deep and clear voice as possible the words he said every time he left a soldier..."
"But once, in his anger, Aidan had asked me whether I thought I had wasted my life, and I had told him no. No, I had not. But I had been wrong. And Tom Cardle has been right. For I had known everything..."