Marly

“He had never felt so ashamed in his life; he had never imagined that he could behave so cruelly. He wondered how a boy who thought he was a good person really could act in such a cowardly way towards a friend.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

“A home is not a building or a street or a city or something so artificial as bricks and mortar. A home is where one's family is...”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“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

“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never get struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.”
― John Green, Paper Towns