Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

Their lost voices must continue to be heard.

Today people can see and protest all the different interests that want war to happen, the people it financially benefits. The First World War wasn't fought for that reason. The Second World War wasn't fought for that reason. Your entire country and way of life could be overtaken.

The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.

I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .

I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.

What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?