Anything is possible,’ I said. ‘But most things are unlikely.
After all, the clamour of the crowded public house is infinitely more welcoming than the stillness of the empty home.
A line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart's invisible furies on his face.
14 בנובמבר 2014 him now, despite the fact that he was, as Gretel had pointed out, no more than a teenager himself.זהאומרשהחיליםהיוצעיריםNotes From: John Boyne. Boy in the Striped Pajamas. iBooks. פר,...
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...
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.
Whenever I look at Edna O’Brien, continued Mr. Denby-Denby, I get the impression that she wants to put every man she meets across her knee and give them a good spanking until they show her the proper...
Você é o meu melhor amigo, Shmuel. Meu melhor amigo para a vida toda.
The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always st...
Shmuel blinked and shook his head. It was quite extraordinary. If it wasn’t for the fact that Bruno was nowhere near as skinny as the boys on his side of the fence, and not quite so pale either, it wo...
Bruno feel very uncomfortable because, in his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.
A man was standing at the end of the hallway, just outside an open door, from where a great light shone, illuminating him almost as a god.
When I make mistakes I get punished,' insisted Bruno, 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 th...
Answer me!'Shouted Lieutenant Kotler. 'Did you steal something from that fridge?' 'No, sir. He gave it to me,'said Shmuel, tears welling up in his eyes as he throw a sideways glance at Bruno. 'He's my...
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.
15 בנובמבר 2014 be given an explanation for why they had all been forced to leave their comfortable home and come to this terrible place, which must have been the greatest wrong ever committed to him...
No man with any sense should marry the girl to whom he loses his virginity. It’s like learning to drive in some clapped-out old banger and then holding on to it for the rest of your life when you’ve d...
After all, the great joy of literature, as opposed to politics or religion, is that it embraces differing opinions, it encourages debate, it allows us to have heated conversations with our closest fri...
14 בנובמבר 2014 Out-With?’ asked Bruno. ‘What’s an Out-With?’‘It’s not an Out-With, Bruno,’ said Gretel with a sigh. ‘It’s just Out-With.’‘Well, what’s Out-With then?’ he repeated. ‘Out with what?עיוו...