Paliwan Starr

“If it wasn’t for the fact that Bruno was nowhere near as skinny as the boys on his side of the fence, and not quite so pale either, it would have been difficult to tell them apart. It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

“Of course all this happened a long time ago. And nothing like that could happen again, not in this day and age.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“there was a breath of widening life in the morning air--something hard to describe--”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“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 time he left a soldiers presence. 'Heil Hitler,' he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, 'Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon'.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas