He didn’t want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.

No woman will ever take care of my children but me, she said. I will not allow it, do you understand?And after I am gone Madge Toxley, if you try to make them yours, then...

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

This house is haunted.

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

We don’t have the luxury of thinking … Some people make all the decisions for us

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...

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.

And soon afterwards this manuscript will appear, my final book… There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will for ever be...

It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to...

Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn’t bring you up to have one

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out...

Let’s not play games, Mr. Cratchett,” I replied. “I wanted to let you know that I’ll be coming in for an appointment with Mr. Raisin on Tuesday morning at eleven o’clock. I shall need about...

He pushed his two feet together and shot his right arm in the air before clicking his two heels together and saying in a deep and clear voice as possible the words he said every...

I would have dearly liked to close the French doors between us for a bit of peace, but Mam wouldn’t allow it; she said that solitude would give me ideas and the last thing a...

He’s crazy,” Bruno said, twirling a finger in circles around the side of his head and whistling to indicate just how crazy he thought he was. “He went up to a cat on the street...

…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.

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can’t you?It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.