Quotes about boys
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“I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.”

Jonathan Franzen (1959) novelist

Source: The Discomfort Zone: A Personal Journey

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“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variant: Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

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“A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole

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“I loved all the boys with soft sad eyes, and lost souls.”

Grace Coddington (1941) former model and the creative director of American Vogue magazine

Source: Grace: A Memoir

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“Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

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“You freaking, flippin’, moronic frat boy!”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

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“Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

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“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.”

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union

As quoted in Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941) by Irving Stone, Ch. 6

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“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”

Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian

"Your Boy and His Dog," Liberty magazine, (30 July 1932)
Also published in Chips Off the Old Benchley http://books.google.com/books?id=1-gHw9bqQqAC&q=%22A+dog+teaches+a+boy+fidelity+perseverance+and+to+turn+around+three+times+before+lying+down%22&pg=PA94#v=onepage (1949)

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“Why is it, she wondered now, that boys get to do things and be things and girls only get to watch?”

Jennifer Donnelly (1963) American writer

Source: These Shallow Graves

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“One does not simplyRoland."
Oh boy. I supposed I would get a lecture on the dangers of wandering into Mordor next.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Shifts

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“The cuter the boy, the mushier your brain.”

Jeanne Birdsall (1951) American children's writer

Source: The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

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“I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: Viola in Reel Life

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“But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Silence

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“Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
Context: Then Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh walked hand in hand down the forest path and they said goodbye. So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.

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“My words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.”

W.S. Merwin (1927–2019) American poet

Source: The Lice

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“There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: The Invisibles, Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution

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