"Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny body anymore, but to slip away and sail to the door and rise up into the sky, gliding through the clouds until it was very far away.'' -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"

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Source : John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.178, Random House

John Boyne

#Boys Quotes #Sky Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“I get in fights with my sister all the time. She comes on the road with me and we fight - like sisters do.”
“Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.”

Source : Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.9, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.”
“It's as if all identity has been stolen from them, except their identity as slaves.”
“When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.”
“To accomplish big things, I am convinced you must first dream big dreams.”
“I'm a jokester, so when I was joking on Twitter, it kinda rubbed people the wrong way. And I was like, I didn't make these up. I'm just letting you know they're there.”

Source : "Zero Sum Game". Interview with Karan Madhok, www.slamonline.com. March 14, 2013.
“I've done more than 10,000 interviews, and I've learnt that you've got to do your homework. I bury myself in research beforehand. And you have to be genuinely interested in people; there's a cornucopia of great, ordinary people out there with wonderful, colourful stories.”

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