I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.
John BoyneBruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?
John BoyneThere 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.
John BoyneI think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would be the kind of stories you would write in an adult novel only they just happen to feature a child at the center of them.
John Boyne