По правде, Эмили была чудесная девушка, очень красивая, если это так важно, но с ней-то я и потерял невинность, а ни один разумный человек не женится на женщине, с которой он стал мужчиной. Это все ра...
That life had manifested the heart’s invisible furies on his face.
Monogamy is simply not the natural state for man, and when I say man I mean man or woman. It just doesn’t make sense to manacle yourself sexually to the same person for fifty or sixty years when your...
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.
It struck me as extraordinary that the leaders of each of these countries bore such an intimate familial relationship to each other. It was as if the entire matter was nothing more than a childish gam...
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.
There'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 April 28, 1789: The real-life mutiny that inspire...
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...
My mother was Eveline Hartford, said Maude, as if this would mean something to one or the other of us. So as you know, she simply adored chairs.
I felt that this must be what it would be like to be married to someone, a constant back and forth of bickering, watching out for any stray comment in a conversation that might be corrected, anything...
He put his face to the glass and saw what was out there, and this time when his eyes opened wide and his mouth made the shape of an O, his hands stayed by his sides because something made him feel ver...
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?
And shortly after that the blob became a figure. And then, as Bruno got even closer, he saw that the thing was neither a dot nor a speck nor a blob nor a figure, but a person.
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...
14 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 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,...