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.
John BoyneIt's so unfair, I don't see whij I have to be stuck over here on this side of the fence where there's no one to talk to and no one to play with and you get to have dozens of friends are probably playing for hours every day, I'll have to speak to Father about it.
John BoyneTag: weird-isn-t-it
Those people... well, they're not people at all, Bruno
John BoyneIn his imagination he had thought that all the huts were full of happy families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in the evening and told stories about how things were so much better when they were children and they'd had respect for their elders, not like the children nowadays. He thought that all the boys and girls who lived here would be in different groups, playing tennis or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch on the ground. He had thought that there would be a shop in the centre, and maybe a small café like the ones he had known in Berlin; he had wondered whether there would be a fruit and vegetable stalls. As it turned out, all the things that he thought might be there - weren't.
John BoyneÎnsă, 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 după aceea, stropul deveni o siluetă. După care, când Bruno se apropie și mai mult, văzu că nu era nici punct, nici pată, nici strop, nici siluetă, ci o făptură. De fapt, era un băiat.
John BoyneAnd then the room went very dark and somehow, despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let it go.
John BoyneThere'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(J)ust because your version of normal isn't the same as someone else's version doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with you.
John BoyneIt is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before.
John BoyneThere'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 inspired John Boyne's novel, Mutiny on the Bounty, took place aboard the HMS Bounty 224 years ago today. Half the ship's crew, seduced by several months of good life on Tahiti, rose up against Captain William Bligh. Some of the mutineers' descendants still live on Pitcairn Island
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