He tells a story, and that's what I like. Does this fella tell a story? He doesn't spend twenty pages describing the colour of the sky?''He hasn't so far.''Good. Jeffrey Archer never talks about the c...
Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see, said Julian, displaying an understanding of the universe far beyond his years. That's true, she said. But only because most men are not as smart as wo...
But for all that we had, for all the luxury to which we were accustomed, we were both denied love, and this deficiency would be scorched into our futures lives like an ill-considered tattoo inscribed...
Bruno: Me parece que no puedo dejarlo. Me parece que no quiero.
Berlin,
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.
Însă, în timp ce reflectă astfel, picioarele îl duseră pas cu pas din ce în ce mai aproape de punctul din depărtare, care între timp devenise o pată, apoi se transformă într-un strop. Și în curând dup...
The usual nonsense that people who know nothing about anything, like me, say when they don’t want their own days to be ruined by worrying about others.
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).
Você é o meu melhor amigo, Shmuel. Meu melhor amigo para a vida toda.
There’s nothing more tedious than a grown man blaming his parents, birth or otherwise, for all the things that have gone wrong in his life.
The last image I had of her was her sitting on the platform at Thorpe as a group of people stared at this distressed, weeping woman, and then her charging towards the glass of my window seat as the tr...
Life is suffering. Until the great day of judgement, when peace and equanimity may be restored for those who are pure of heart and deed.
It’s not so long ago that men of your ilk believed in witches and superstition, I pointed out. Medieval times, he said, waving a hand in the air to dismiss the notion. This is 1867. The Church has com...
I've always considered myself to be the sturdy type. You know, the sort who can put up with any unpleasant situation if I have to.
For the banister in this house stretched from the very top floor – just outside the
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...
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...
15 בנובמבר 2014 Bruno frowned and considered it. He wasn’t entirely sure that Father had any landהמוגבלותההתפתחותיתשלברונוהנורמליתאוהלאנורמליתNotes From: John Boyne. Boy in the Striped Pajamas. iBooks...
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,...