It 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 Boyne

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

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

- 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 Boyne

The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their…

- John Boyne

Their lost voices must continue to be heard.

- John Boyne

Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.

- John Boyne

Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking.

- John Boyne

What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

- John Boyne