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“Until his arrival I had been without a friend. There wasn't one boy in my class who I believed could live up to my romantic ideal of friendship, not one whom I really admired, for whom I would have been willing to die and who could have understood my demand for complete trust, loyalty and self-sacrifice.”

School Friendship Loneliness

Book:Reunion

Source: Reunion

“Everything about him aroused my curiosity: the care with which he selected his pencils, the way he sat — erect, as if at any moment he might have to get up and give an order to an invisible army — and how he stroked his blond hair. I only relaxed when he, like everyone else, got bored and fidgeted whilst waiting for the bell for the interval between lessons.”

School Curiosity Admiration

Book:Reunion

Source: Reunion

“All I knew, then, was that he was going to be my friend. Everything attracted me to him.”

Love School Friendship Attraction Admiration Fascination

Book:Reunion

Source: Reunion

“Then his proud bearing, his manners, his elegance, his good looks — and who could be altogether insensitive to them? — powerfully suggested to me that here at last I had found someone who came up to my ideal of a friend.”

Love School Friendship Attraction Admiration Elegance Fascination Good Looks

Book:Reunion

Source: Reunion

“A few days later it was the turn of the "Caviar" of the class. Three boys, Reutter, Müller and Frank, were known by this sobriquet because they kept strictly to themselves in the belief that they, and they alone among us, were destined to make their mark in the world.”

School Superiority Cliques

Book:The King Must Die / The Bull from the Sea

Source: The King Must Die / The Bull from the Sea

“I can't remember exactly when I decided that Konradin had to be my friend, but that one day he would be my friend I didn't doubt.”

Love School Friendship

Book:Reunion

Source: Reunion

“The problem was how to attract him to me. What could I offer the one who had gently but firmly turned down the aristocrats and the Caviar? How could I conquer him, entrenched behind barriers of tradition, his natural pride and acquired arrogance?”

School Friendship Pride Arrogance Admiration Fascination

Book:Reunion

Source: Reunion

“So I went through the whole list except the names beginning with H, and when I had finished I found that twenty-six boys out of the forty-six in my class had died for das 1000-jährige Reich.”

School Death Loss Childhood Germany Nazi Childhood Trauma

Book:Reunion

Source: Reunion

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