Fire Quotes

“I glance at my watch. It's just gone three thirty. I get in my car and drive ten minutes south, in the direction of a local school that gets out around now. I slow down when I see the boys making their way home and wait until I find a suitable one, walking alone, young, vulnerable, and innocent.

I slow down.

I pull over.

He's moving closer and closer, almost in sight now.

I close my eyes and take a deep breath.

My finger hovers over the button that will lower the window on the passenger side. I wait until the boy is almost parallel with my car.

Only then do I make my decision.”
― John Boyne, Fire

“He does not frighten me. Men do not frighten me. If anything, it's them who should feel nervous.”
― John Boyne, Fire

“Teenage boys never want to look fragile in front of girls or women. When they talk about us with their friends, they can be ruthless and demeaning, speaking of us as little more than bodies to be used or experimented upon for their pleasure, but when they're alone with someone of the opposite sex, their intrinsic terror and total spinelessness assert themselves. They are monsters, every one of them, utterly devoid of decency.”
― John Boyne, Fire