Quotes About John Boyne

The notion that he had a life outside our life, outside our friendship, was deeply hurtful to me.

Is it really that easy for the innocent to be corrupted?

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.

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.

I understand that some people prefer the third person plural for a pronoun,' he replied, having recently interviewed a pop singer on his show who'd insisted upon this, leading one of the cameramen to be fired for calling them Sibyl, after the Sally Field movie about the woman with multiple personalities.