"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" Quotes
"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" follows the unlikely friendship between Bruno, the son of a Nazi commandant, and Shmuel, a Jewish boy imprisoned in a concentration camp, highlighting the innocence of childhood amidst the horrors of the Holocaust.
historical fiction | 240 pages | Published in 2006
Quotes
What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?
Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.
We don't have the luxury of thinking. Some people make all the decisions for us.
It reminds me of home. It makes me feel sad.
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.
It's not up to us to change things.
You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.
He felt a strong desire to go back home; to return to the house he had been forced to leave.
There’s such a thing as manners, after all.
We are correcting history here.
