The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

by John Boyne

Bruno had a pain in his stomach and he could feel something growing inside him, something that when it worked its way up from the lowest depths inside him to the outside world would either make him shout and scream that the whole thing was wrong and unfair and a big mistake for which somebody would pay one of these days, or just make him burst into tears instead.

Accept the situation in which you find yourself and everything will be so much easier.’

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