Quotes from John Boyne

Hay mas cosas en el cielo y en la tierra que todas las que pueda soñar la filosofía.

Un hogar no es un edificio, ni una calle ni una ciudad; no tiene nada que ver con cosas tan materiales como los ladrillos y el cemento. Un hogar es donde está tu familia, ¿entiendes?

The gods would never allow such a perverse outcome, would they? I am divine. My place is on the mountaintop with Jupiter, Mars and Apollo.

They looked at each other in absolute horror, as if they knew that they couldn't possibly control the chain of events set in place by that simple, inevitable meeting. The lives they had lived until that moment had come to an end. And then it didn't matter what happened next, their destinies were already decided.

This is a Bible, you blasphemous cretin," he said, his face now growing even redder than before. "This is the word of the Lord." "If you say so," I replied, rolling my eyes. "He only had one book in him, though, didn't he? Couldn't write another?

You have it. she said. And for what little it is worth, I hope that it brings you peace.

We all fall in the shit many times during our lives. The trick is pulling ourselves out again.

For a moment he considered running across the platform to tell people about the empty seats in the carriage, but he decided not to as something told him that if it didn't make Mother angry, it would probably make Gretel furious, and that would be worse still.

Honestly, Ignac, I look back at my life and I don't understand very much of it. It seems like it would have been so simple now to have been honest with everyone, especially Julian.

Odran, you may never believe anything I tell you again, but believe this: you have no idea what you're talking about. None. You don't have the first concept of what my childhood was like. Of all the things that happened to me in the years before I arrived at Clonliffe. None.' 'And I don't want to know, I told him. 'Nothing that happened to you back then makes anything that you did acceptable. It doesn't justify anything. Can't you see that?

A line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt had once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face.

The night was warmer than most I had known; we could breathe without seeing clouds of unpoken words dissolving into the atmosphere before us.

and been committed to a home for the bewildered

that girl has no more sense than a postage stamp.

Ah those people, said Father, nodding his head smiling slightly. Those people...well, they are not people at all, Bruno.

Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots.' UMBERTO ECO

What I would not have given to be that young at this time and to be able to experience such unashamed honesty.

if you ever tell anyone about this conversation, not only will I deny everything but I'll sue you for libel." "A libel is written down," I told him. "If I tell someone, then it would be a slander. Although it wouldn't be anyway since it would be the truth." "Fuck you," he said.

Why couldn't Ireland have been like this when I was a boy?

Si no hablo, podría desaparecer.

Why in God's name would you call a priest in your school a penis? How could he possibly be a penis? A man can't be a penis; he can only be a man. This makes no sense to me at all.

Remember, my young friend, life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practise.' He winked at me. 'Forster.

Maude's way of dealing with Charles was to treat him like an ottoman, of no use to anyone but worth having around

And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life; not for me the endless whining and wailing of the undead.