Quotes about boys
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“Jace raised his eyebrows. “Walk of shame, boys?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“She took me to a mall yesterday"' Lachlain sounded as if he'd just stifled a shudder. "And she pointed to a boy and said, 'I think I want one.' So naturally, I start thinking, But she meant a bairn—”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince

Nature, Thinking

“Lewis: "Oh, no."
Kaitlyn: "Lewis?"
Lewis: "Hi, Kaitlyn. Hi. Rob."
Rob: "G'way, Lewis. I'm sleeping."
Kaitlyn: "Hi. Anna."
Anna: "Hi, Kait."
Lewis: "Hi, Anna."
Gabriel: "And good night, John-Boy! Shut the hell up, all of you!”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Strange Power

Hell, Sleep, Night

“She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Love

“A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

My Lost Youth, refrain (1858), quoting Olaus Sirma
Source: The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Youth

“I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: Just One Wish

Dreams, Time

“When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Smile, Thinking, Help

“I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man's body, although I'd appreciate it if you didn't quote me on that.

-Bobby Tom”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Heaven, Texas

Quotes

“Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love,” the boy explained. He paused thoughtfully. “But I don’t think the rest of it hurts as much as the beginning.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Love, Thinking, Hurt

“When I used to picture forever, it was always with the same boy. In my dreams, my future was set. A sure thing. This isn’t the way I’d pictured it. … The future is unclear. But it’s still mine.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Dreams, Way, Future

“Peter loves to make promises. He has the best intentions of keeping them. It makes it worse, somehow, that he doesn’t know how to. He thinks he’s a nice boy, that’s the worst part.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Love, Thinking, Parting

“Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Search, Night, Country

“Is there some kind of rule for when Sam should be a boy and when he's a Wolf?"
"A Wolf lifts his leg and yellows up the snow. A boy has to use the toilet."
"And that will work?"
"Only if he needs to pee.”

Anne Bishop book Written in Red

Source: Written in Red

Wolf

“You have to remember… that for this little boy whom you have met, his life is just as important to him, as your life is to you. No matter how insufficient or how shabby it may seem to some, it is the only one he has.”

Jonathan Kozol (1936) American activist and educator

Source: Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

Life

“It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Fear, Soul

“Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce…”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Cooking

“A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him for her own. The other was his best friend. And she went after him in ill-considered shoes, brave and completely unprepared.”

Anne Ursu (1900) American writer

Source: Breadcrumbs

People, Shoe, Heart

“Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.”

Koushun Takami book Battle Royale

Source: Battle Royale

“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary”

Tom Schulman (1950) American film director, screenwriter

Graduation

“A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men.
I have the strength of one small boy… with polio.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Men, Personality

“You cannot write if you do not read,” the blind man said. “You cannot eat if you do not chew. And you cannot play if you do not”—he grabbed for the boy’s hand—“listen.”

Mitch Albom book The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Reading

“Pennsylvania." The boys nodded appreciatively, as if Abby had said Emily was from Naughty Dirty Sex Land”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Unbelievable

Sex

“A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Girl, Change

“A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off”

Archibald Macleish (1892–1982) American poet and Librarian of Congress

Way, Learning

“? Is that boy crazy?"
"Most young men his age are somewhat crazy, I think," Sazed said with a smile. "However, this is hardly unexpected. Haven't you noticed how he stares at you when you enter a room?"
"I thought he was just creepy.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Men, Age, Smile, Thinking

“I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.”

Meg Cabot book Pants on Fire

Source: Pants on Fire

Thinking

“I don't define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Variant: I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me
Source: The Blood of Olympus

“He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Jealousy

God, School

“This is where Wulf’s people would get drunk and party for a week. All hail the Vikings, forerunners to the frat boys! (Chris)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

People

“He's a boy, Kat. I hate to break it to you, but we are fundamentally different.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Perfect Scoundrels

Hate

“The little boys did as they were told, eager to please their deranged brother.

"," they chorused, pudgy fingers raised. And then from the corner of his mouth, Myles whispered to his twin, "Artemis simple-toon.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Time Paradox

“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”

Joseph Heller book Something Happened

Something Happened (1974)

“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

World

“We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

Women, Home, Drink, Happiness

“Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Love, Disease

“There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Love, Pain, Heart

“A book floated down the Amper River.
A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held
it in his right hand. He grinned. He stood
waist-deep in the icy, Decemberish water.
“How about a kiss, Saumensch?” he said.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Books, Kiss, Water

“What about King Tut’s tomb?” I protested.
“That boy king?” Zia rolled her eyes. “Boring. You should see some of the good tombs.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

“I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)

Children, People, School, Question

“… And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Color

“When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.”

Sarah Vowell book Take the Cannoli

Source: Take the Cannoli

Feeling, Thinking, Dance

“You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"- he laughed soundlessly and without any humor- "to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Family, Sister

“So," I (Percy) said glumly. "We're going to get a ride from your brother, huh?"
Artemis's silver eyes gleamed. "Yes, boy. You see, Bianca di Angelo is not the only one with
an annoying brother. It's time for you to meet my irresponsible twin, Apollo.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Time

“Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go."
"Ooh, me, too," Eve said.
The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it.
"What? It's what girls do. Get over it.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Girl

“I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Way, Girl, Thinking

“And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: In Your Dreams

Life, Girl

“You make a good point,' Fletcher conceded. 'See, there's a reason why you're the girl and I'm the boy. You think about things while I…'
'Don't?'
'Exactly,' he said happily.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Girl, Thinking

“How do you know about Boy George? (Jesse)
I was in hell, Jesse. What do you think they used to torture me with? Bad pop songs. (Xypher)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Chaser

Hell, Thinking

“Of course it's not okay with me, I'm a teenage boy. As far as I'm concerned, this is the worst thing that's happenedd since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru" - Jace”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1982)

Men, World, Change

“Hmmmm… There certainly are a lot of pretty boys in this world.”

L.A. Meyer (1942–2014) American writer

Source: In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber

World

“It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing or how they felt when a specific event occurred…. Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Girl, Game

“Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor

“Play the game, but don’t believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

Game, Learning

“Buffalo Bill's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Death

“Barking hard work, being a boy.”

Scott Westerfeld book Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" — one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, (1963)
Source: I Have A Dream

Faith, Beauty, Dreams, Hope

“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Standup Comic (1999)
Source: Annie Hall: Screenplay

Soul, Cheating

“I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Fashion, Thinking

“Nick, space. Now. (Acheron)
Go, Nick, fetch. Here, boy, here. You should let me borrow one of those leather collars you wear and give me a tag with Kyrian’s number on it. ‘In case of loss, call my owner.’ (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: The Dream Hunter

Loss

“I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody else's first choice”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Heart

“What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Variant: What shall we do? All of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, and watermelon hearts?
Source: Blood Roses

Love, Fear, Girl, Heart

“The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clod-pated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway?”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming."
Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-"
"Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Help

“I don't want to be afraid anymore. I want to be brave. I want… life to start happening. I want to fall in love and want a boy to fall in love with me back -Lara Jean”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Love, Life

“My name is Jimmy,
but my friends just call me
the hideous penguin boy.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Source: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

“The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Princess in Training

Love

“Looks like I’m going to ruin your day, Big Boy. I choose to live my crappy life a little longer. (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Life

“I don't want to lose the boy with the bread.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Variant: I have kept track of the boy with the bread.
Source: The Hunger Games

“Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

Time

“I wondered if it was possible to take someone's pain away with a kiss. Because that was what i wanted to do, take all of his sadness and pour it out of him, comfort him, make the boy i knew come back.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Pain, Sadness, Kiss

“Jealous of the actors now, are we?"
"What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable."
Oh, this was going to be good.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness—the beautiful wreckage of mercy.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Beauty, Soul

“There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!”

Cecily von Ziegesar The It Girl

Source: The It Girl

Thinking

“Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists
Source: https://sheleadsafrica.org/20-powerful-chimamanda-adichie-quotes-for-todays-boss-women/

“Don't ever ask me again if I hate living anywhere with you and Jasmina. This Rock reminds me of the boy I was and being with you in the palace reminds me of the man I want to be.'

'Not just any man,' she whispered. 'A King. Mine.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Hate

“Careful, boy,” rumbled Gwyn. “You have your Laws and we have ours. The difference is only that we do not pretend ours are not cruel.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Law

“How to explain to the earth that it was more functional as a vegetable patch than a flower garden, just as factories were more functional than schools and boys were more functional as weapons than as humans.”

Kamila Shamsie book Burnt Shadows

Source: Burnt Shadows

School, Flowers

“And one more thing… You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“I'm the Super-sized McShizzle, man!" Leo said. "I'm Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme. And the ladiesa bad boy.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“Just once, I'd like to find a boy. And I like him and he likes me. And we have a laugh and the kissing's really good and there's no-one getting in the way of the laughing and the kissing. Is that too much to ask?”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: Kiss and Make Up

Way, Kiss

“Do you want your blood to stay where it is sochar-lar?"
Tavi lifted both eyebrows at the unfamiliar word, and glanced at Varg.
"Monkey," Varg supplied, in Aleran. "And male-child."
"He called me monkey boy?" Tavi asked.”

Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Source: Captain's Fury

“Contrary to what you might think, I don't spend every waking hour thinking about boys."
"Just most waking hours?”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Thinking

“The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Reading

“Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.”

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

Age, Understanding