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.
John Boyne
.. 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.
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What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?
children holocaust thoughts epiphany
He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.
life truth childhood
We're accustomed to the older generation looking down on the younger and telling them that they know nothing of the world. But things are rather out of kilter now, aren't they? It is your generation who understands the inhumanity of man, not ours. It's boys like you who have to live with what you have seen and what you have done. You've become the generation of response. While your elders can only look in your direction and wonder.
war
funny humor children
And soon afterwards this manuscript will appear, my final book.. There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will for ever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.
courage inspirational
Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one
imagination parents-and-children
Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.
pain
It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person, you see. We are GeorgyandZoya.
inspirational-love
Seated opposite me in the railway carriage, the elderly lady in the fox-fur shawl was recalling some of the murders that she had committed over the years.
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