The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Quotes

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Shmuel: I wish you'd remembered the chocolate. Bruno: Yes, I'm sorry. I know! Perhaps you can come and have supper with us sometime. Shmuel: I can't, can I? Because of this. [points the electric fence] Bruno: But that's to stop the animals getting ou...

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Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

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Bruno: There is such thing as a nice Jew, though, isn't there? Herr Liszt: I think, Bruno, if you ever found a nice Jew, you would be the best explorer in the world.

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Grandpa: You know, Ralf, your mother really is sick. She's been talking about this visit for weeks. Mother: Maybe that's what's made her sick.

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Jewish Man: No, it's just a shower.

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Bruno: I'm Bruno. Shmuel: Shmuel. Bruno: Sorry? Shmuel: I'm Shmuel. Bruno: That's your name? I've never heard of anyone called that before. Shmuel: I've never heard of anyone called Bruno. Bruno: Shmuel? No one's called Shmuel.

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Father: [from trailer] I'm a solider. Soldiers fight a war. Mother: That's not war! Father: It's a vital part of it!

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Bruno: Do you not like playing? [Shmuel nods] Bruno: Just not ball games? Shmuel: Not here.

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[about Gretel's reading from their tutor of popaganda about "the Jew"] Bruno: I don't understand. One man caused all this trouble?

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Pavel - Jewish servant: I practiced as a doctor. Bruno: You must not have been very good then, if you had to practice.

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Bruno: I want to go home. Father: You are home, Bruno. Home is where the family is.

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Bruno: Why do you wear pajamas all day? Shmuel: The soldiers. They took all our clothes away. Bruno: My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away.

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[first lines] Mother: Hello, sweetheart. Bruno: Mum, what's going on? Mother: We're celebrating. Bruno: Celebrating? Mother: Mm, your father's been given a promotion. Gretel: That means a better job. Bruno: I know what promotion is. Mother: So we're ...

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Lieutenant Kotler: How dare you talk to people in the house? How dare you! Are you eating? Have you been stealing food? [shouts] Lieutenant Kotler: Answer me! Shmuel: No, sir. He gave it to me. He's my friend. Lieutenant Kotler: What? [to Bruno] Lieu...

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Bruno: Shmuel. Can we go to the café or something? Shmuel: Café? Bruno: [pause] Maybe I should go home. Shmuel: What about Papa? Bruno: [after looking around] Yeah. Shmuel: We'll check our hut first.

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Lieutenant Kotler: They smell worse when they burn, don't they?

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Bruno: He used to be a doctor once, but gave it all up to peel potatoes.

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