Bruno.
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.
The past is the past. Here we have a fresh beginning, but let that beginning start tomorrow.
Imagination
Because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.’ Bruno
You are not there, Father, I cried. I wake up at Gaudlin Hall, I spend most of my day there, I sleep there at night. And throughout it all there is but one thought running through my mind.And that is?...
When he closed his eyes, everything around him just felt empty and cold, as if he was in the loneliest place in the world. The middle of nowhere.
What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pyjamas and which people wore the uniforms?
How can something still feel so painful after twenty-eight years, I asked myself. Is there no recovery from the traumas of our youth?
Bruno. ‘In Berlin we had a big house with five floors if you counted the
His head and said that he didn’t want to talk about it. Bruno assumed that there were bullies all over the world, not just in schools in Berlin, and that one of them had done this to Shmuel. He felt a...
Decided it was time for the children to return to their studies, and although it seemed ridiculous to Bruno that school should take place when there were only two students to teach, both Mother and Fa...
Well, I’m not advocating it, I said. I just mean that before we learn to feel afraid of things, our bodies know how to do them anyway. It’s one of the more disappointing aspects of growing older. We f...
There is cruelty in the world, Eliza, you can see that, can’t you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.
The people are behind him for now. He has infected them with his hatred. He demands absolute loyalty, and when anyone dares to criticize him, they lose their position. I think he will lead a great arm...
Sure the priests ran the country back then and they hated women. Oh my God, they hated women and anything that had to do with women and anything to do with women’s bodies or ideas or desires, and any...
Some things are just sitting there, waiting to be discovered. Other things are probably better off left alone’ Nine-year-old
Seated opposite me in the railway carriage, the elderly lady in the fox-fur shawl was recalling some of the murders that she had committed over the years.
Look at me Pieter, she said. He looked up tears in his eyes. Don't ever pretend that you did not know what was going on here. You have eyes and you have ears. And you sat in that room on many occasion...
It was important to look confident, he realized that very early on. After all, there was a terrible tendency among adults to look at children travelling alone as if they were planning a crime of some...