{"author":"John Boyne","author_id":"John+Boyne","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"...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.","author":"John Boyne","tags":["death","friendship","holocaust","inspirational","life","love","tear-jerker","wwii-fiction"],"id":7176,"author_id":"John+Boyne"},{"text":"He's crazy,' Bruno said, twirling a finger in circles around the side of his head and whistling to indicate just how crazy he thought he was. 'He went up to a cat on the street the other day and invited her over for afternoon tea.' 'What did the cat say?' asked Gretel, who was making a sandwich in the corner of the kitchen. 'Nothing.' explained Bruno. 'It was a cat.","author":"John Boyne","tags":["cat","crazy","humor","irony","sarcasm","tea"],"id":46172,"author_id":"John+Boyne"},{"text":"I would have dearly liked to close the French doors between us for a bit of peace, but Mam wouldn't allow it; she said that solitude would give me ideas and the last thing a boy of my age needed was ideas.","author":"John Boyne","tags":["childhood","mothers"],"id":54987,"author_id":"John+Boyne"},{"text":"You are not there, Father,” I cried. “I wake up at Gaudlin Hall, I spend most of my day there, I sleep there at night. And throughout it all there is but one thought running through my mind.”“And that is?”“This house is haunted.","author":"John Boyne","tags":["ghost-story","thriller"],"id":55267,"author_id":"John+Boyne"},{"text":"Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one.","author":"John Boyne","tags":["imagination","parents-and-children"],"id":73852,"author_id":"John+Boyne"},{"text":"What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?","author":"John Boyne","tags":["children","epiphany","holocaust","thoughts"],"id":78040,"author_id":"John+Boyne"},{"text":"There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you?It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.","author":"John Boyne","tags":["cruelty","ghost-story","thriller"],"id":104713,"author_id":"John+Boyne"},{"text":"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 soldiers presence. 'Heil Hitler,' he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, 'Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon'.","author":"John Boyne","tags":["thinking"],"id":117187,"author_id":"John+Boyne"},{"text":"No woman will ever take care of my children but me, she said. I will not allow it, do you understand?And after I am gone Madge Toxley, if you try to make them yours, then you will live to regret it.","author":"John Boyne","tags":["ghost-story","thriller"],"id":174836,"author_id":"John+Boyne"},{"text":"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, right from the start, and never acted on any of it. I had blocked it from my mind time and again, refused to recognize what was staring me in the face. I had said nothing when I should have spoken out, convincing myself that I was a man of higher character. I had been complicit in all their crimes, and people had suffered because of me. I had wasted my life. I had wasted every moment of my life. And the final irony was that it had taken a convicted pedophile to show me that in my silence, I was just as guilty as the rest of them.","author":"John Boyne","tags":["silence","wasted-life"],"id":183962,"author_id":"John+Boyne"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}