“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Ray Bradbury401
American writer 1920–2012Related quotes
Mark Twain book Pudd'nhead Wilson
Variant: December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson
“After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.”
George V of the United Kingdom (1865–1936) King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India
Statement to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, referring to his son, Edward, Prince of Wales
Quoted in Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin (1969) ch.34
“A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love—true love—is something else.”
Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer
Source: A Kiss in Time
“Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.”
T.S. Eliot book Poems
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795) Italian occultist
Cagliostro: the Splendour And Misery of a Master of Magic by W.R.H. Trowbridge, (William Rutherford Hayes), (August 1910) https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Trowbridge%2c%20W%2e%20R%2e%20H%2e%20%28William%20Rutherford%20Hayes%29%2c%201866%2d1938
“I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy— same maturity level.”
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
The Evolution Tour: Live in Miami
2007, 2008
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Darlings at the Top of the Stairs", Lanterns & Lances (1961); previously appeared in The Queen and in Harper's Magazine.
From Lanterns and Lances
“A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.”
Steve Kluger (1952) American writer
Source: My Most Excellent Year