I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve the problems for them. They could use their own ingenuity, use their own talents to solve whatever the issue was. And I like that still. I think that children want to read about heroic children. They don't want to read about children that have to be saved all the time.
John BoyneBruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away."
John BoyneWhat exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?
John BoyneJust because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.
John BoyneThere's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.
John Boyne