Frases de John Boyne

“La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia.”

“Hay mas cosas en el cielo y en la tierra que todas las que pueda soñar la filosofía.”

“«Al mal tiempo, buena cara.»”

“Tú eres mi mejor amigo —dijo—. Mi mejor amigo para toda la vida.”

“Que uno contemple el cielo por la noche no lo convierte en astrónomo.”

“La niñez se mide a través de sonidos, olores y suspiros, antes de que aparezca la sombra obscura de la razón. (John Betjeman)”

“Es muy bueno fingiendo ser alguien que no es -le comenté después a Zoya en el vestíbulo, cuando esperábamos para felicitarlo, sin saber muy bien si con esas palabras pretendía o no halagarlo-. No sé cómo lo hace.

- Yo sí -repuso ella, sorprendiéndome.”

“Se me ocurre que, incluso aunque Zoya y yo aún seguimos vivos, mi vida ha concluido ya. No tardaré en perderla y no habrá razón para que continúe sin ella. Verán, es que somos una sola persona. Somos GeorgiZoya.”

“Hay veces en que le envidio su juventud, pero trato de no pensar mucho en eso. Un anciano no debe tener celos de aquellos que vienen a ocupar su puesto, y recordar el tiempo en que era joven, sano y viril es un acto de masoquismo que no sirve de nada.”

“Hay cosas que sencillamente están ahí, sin molestar a nadie, esperando a que
las descubran.”

“Shmuel —dijo, corriendo hacia él y sentándose. Casi lloraba de alivio y de arrepentimiento.—Lo siento mucho, Shmuel. No sé porqué lo hice. Di que me perdonas.
—No pasa nada.—dijo Shmuel, mirándolo. Tenía la cara cubierta de cardenales.
Bruno se estremeció y por un momento olvidó sus disculpas.
—¿Qué te ha pasado? —preguntó, pero no esperó a que Shmuel contestara.—¿Te has caído de la bicicleta? A mí me pasó una vez en Berlín, hace un par de años. Me caí porque iba demasiado rápido y estuve lleno de cardenales varias semanas. ¿Te duele?
—Ya no lo noto —dijo Shmuel.
—Debe de dolerte.
—Ya no noto nada.”

“Todo esto, por supuesto, pasó hace mucho, mucho tiempo, y nunca podría volver a pasar nada parecido. Hoy en día, no.”

“Le hizo comprender que era posible que el tiempo siguiera su curso, pero que las ideas de algunas personas quedarían enquistadas para siempre.”

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

“Their lost voices Must continue to be heard.”

“You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.”

“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.”

“… Despite the mayhem 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 go.”

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

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

“He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly.
"You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.”

“… only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”

“In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.”

“" he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, "Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon.”

“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.”

“I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.”

“Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.”

“Bruno: Why do you wear pajamas all day?
Shmuel: The soldiers. They took all our clothes away.
Bruno: My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away.”

“(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.”

“But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.”

“Regrets and apologies are all very well, but 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. They're like brands.”

“He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.”

“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.”

“It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.”

“I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way".”

“And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”