Did I ever tell you that they nearly cut my dick off?’ ‘No,’ I said, uncertain whether this was something that had really happened or something he was misremembering in his delirium. ‘It’s true,’ he s...
But what about school?’ said Bruno, interrupting her, a thing he knew he was not supposed to do but which he felt he would be forgiven for on this occasion. ‘And what about Karl and Daniel and Martin?...
But there was something about the new house that made Bruno think that no one ever laughed there; that there was nothing to laugh at and nothing to be happy about.
But then I didn’t know what I was giving up until it was already gone. No one ever does, do they?
Bruno thought about this and frowned. He wasn’t particularly bothered if Gretel was being sent away because she was a Hopeless Case and caused nothing but trouble for him. But it seemed a little unfai...
Berlin,
214 בנובמבר 2014 Well, I don’t like the way we have to turn all the lights off at night now,’ he admitted.‘Everyone has to do that,’ said Motherעוד לפני המלחמה Notes From: John Boyne. Boy in the Strip...
15 בנובמבר 2014 The Dot That Became a Speck That Became a Blob That Became a Figure That Became a Boyפילוסופיה.מרגשת.על.גימוד.האחר.שהופכת.לראות.את.האחר.כבן.אדםNotes From: John Boyne. Boy in the Stripe...
Иногда он ко мне заглядывает и орет, точно я глухой. Так с иностранцами говорят англичане, убежденные, что, если орать, их сразу поймут. Странно, я как будто видел себя со стороны, словно это моя душа...
Uncomfortable as I felt around him, and as much as he repulsed me, it was impossible not to be simultaneously fascinated by him, for his was a consistently intoxicating presence. Whenever I saw him, I...
Peaceful in the knowledge that a long and happy relationship negates the need for constant chatter. Zoya and I had long perfected the art of sitting silently in each other’s company for hours on end,...
Irritated by the fact that the rules that always applied to children never seemed to apply to grown-ups at all (despite the fact that they were the ones who enforced them).
You're a bit of an oddball, Jonathan,' I said. 'Has anyone ever told you that?''Nineteen people this year alone,' he said. 'And it's only May.
You know, Emily Dickinson is here too. All she does is write poems about life all the time. The irony! She keeps asking me to read them. I refuse, of course. The days are long enough as it is.
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 Ameri...
The suggestion, however, regarding my age – that I am perhaps not quite fifty years old – would flatter me immensely. For it is many years now since I have been able to say in all honesty that I have...
Still, I had resolved to sit and talk with him and that is what I would do. He neither offered permission nor withheld it regarding the curtains, so I stepped over to the window and pulled them apart,...
Please don’t let Julian die, I asked God. And please stop me from being a homosexual. Only when I stood up and walked away did I realize that that had been two prayers, so I went back and lit a second...
It's the countryside. Perhaps this is our holiday home.
Bruno had a pain in his stomach and he could feel something growing inside him, something that when it worked its way up from the lowest depths inside him to the outside world would either make him sh...