Quotes about boys
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“You’re a terrible liar, boy,” Rand called after us.
“Is he right?” I asked quietly, once we’d put some distance between the guest cabin and us.
“That I’m a terrible liar? No. I’m a fantastic liar.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: The Ruby Circle

“Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Friendship, Way, Sun

“No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!”

Lloyd Alexander book The Black Cauldron

Source: The Black Cauldron

“Nick glowered at Ash. "Are we through now, Dad? Can I go play with my friends if I promise to be a good boy? I'll even try and make it home by curfew."

Ash laughed evilly. "Oh, absolutely, son. In fact, here come your new playmates now.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Home

“„You,” the female on the bed said, her timbre shaded with irrittion. „New guy. Angel Boy. Colonel Curls, or whatever you want to be called. I'm done asking, so now I'm commanding. Free me.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Wicked Nights

Angels, Guy

“It'll be your damnation, boy. You'll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your way to hell.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

Way, Hell

“Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!”

Maureen Johnson book 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes

“Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.”

Thornton Wilder book The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

God, Summer

“I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.”

Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club

Source: The Jane Austen Book Club

“Life, love, boys—it was all about balance.
~Anna Percy”

Zoey Dean book Tall Cool One

Source: Tall Cool One

Love, Life

“You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U. S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Color, Feeling

“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

Parting

“My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself.”

William Shatner (1931) Canadian actor, musician, recording artist, author, and film director

Love

“Clary saw him take Mark's hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy's palm, where it flickered, and then resumed its steady glow. 'Take this with you,' said Jace, 'for it can be dark in the land under the hill, and the years very long.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.”

Jonathan Stroud book Ptolemy's Gate

Source: Ptolemy's Gate

Coffee

“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.

Books, Girl, Thinking, Reading

“How about a cheer
For all those bad girls
And all the boys
That play that rock and roll?
They love it
Like you love Jesus.
It does the same thing
To their souls.”

Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician

Have Love Will Travel
Lyrics, The Last DJ (2002)

Love, Soul, Girl

“Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo”

James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Time, Baby

“On the day of his mother’s funeral, to the boy I loved more than I had ever loved
anything or anyone, I said, “Go to hell.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Love, Hell

“Before and after… I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.”

Curtis Sittenfeld book Prep

Source: Prep

Time, Personality, Happiness

“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

Girl, Personality

“I go wherever you go,' he says, launching us into the water.
This is our start. This is the moment it becomes real. We are married. We are infinite. Me and Conrad. The first boy I ever slow danced with, ever cried over. Ever loved.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Love, Water, Dance

“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

Love, Sadness, Soul

“It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie. And that lie would have kept him alone forever. He may have had nearly nothing for 5 years, but now he can have everything. A boy who looks like that… Magnus.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Truth, Lie

“Disappear Here.
The syringe fills with blood.
You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters.
Wonder if he's for sale.
People are afraid to merge. To merge.”

Bret Easton Ellis book Less Than Zero

Source: Less Than Zero

People, Beauty

“Is he a good boy? (Cherise)
No, Mom, he’s Satan incarnate. In fact, once it’s over, we’re going to get liquored up and tattooed, then find some cheap hos and have a good time with his trust fund. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Moms, Time, Tattoo

“One boy, one girl, two hearts beating wildly.”

Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer

Girl, Heart

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

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

People

“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Girl, Baby

“Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?"
His eyes flared yellow "Is that a challenge?"
"Yes it is.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today." He leaned in close and whispered, "I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you.”

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

Source: The Last Guardian

Personality

“It's weird, how much he's noticed me. Like the attention he's paid to my hunting. And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either. The flour. The wrestling. I have kept track of the boy with the bread.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Imagination

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.”

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

Source: Half-Moon Investigations

Girl, Thinking

“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

Girl

“If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

People, Fight, Country

“Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Music, Training

“Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

Way

“My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies.
My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.”

Lisa Lutz (1970) US author

Source: The Spellman Files

Life

“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”

Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves

World, Girl, Mood

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

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.”
"Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

Fear, Hope

“Too bad, Elizabeth. You're Stuck with me. Not for a few decades, not for centuries. You're tied to me forever. That boy and girl offspring you talked off? They'll come from me--or no one.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

Girl

“Don't worry, goat boy. The milkman is dead.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Dead

“You were never one to moon over handsome boys, or talk about balls and parties, or dream about your future husband.”

“That was because of Merripen,” Win admitted. “He was all I ever wanted.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Seduce Me at Sunrise

Dreams, Future

“Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.”

Alex Haley Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Source: Roots: The Saga of an American Family

World, Way

“These wrinkles are nothing
These gray hairs are nothing,
This stomach which sags
with old food, these bruised
and swollen ankles,
my darkening brain,
they are nothing.
I am the same boy
my mother used to kiss.”

Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator

Food, Kiss

“It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Girl

“Okay, do not call me Aquaman. That’s even worse than water boy.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Water

“It was truly amazing, Clary thought, how much teenage boys were able to eat without ever gaining weight or making themselves sick.
-pg.68”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school.”

Janet Evanovich book Lean Mean Thirteen

Source: Lean Mean Thirteen

School

“When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy in Spite of Herself

Source: Betsy in Spite of Herself

Girl

“Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Housing

“Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked.
"Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Heart

“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

Funny

“Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.”

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

Source: The Last Guardian

“Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?"
"Kiss a cow farm boy”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Kiss

“The minute I'm in a little pain… your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Dark Hunger

Pain

“If this is love, no thanks. I don’t want any part of it. When I’m older, I’m just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Love, Home, Parting, Cry

“…women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.”

Judith Martin (1938) American etiquette expert

Source: Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson

Women

“We are married. We are infinite. Me and Conrad. The first boy I ever slow danced with, ever cried over. Ever loved”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Love, Dance

“He looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Parent, Housing

“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) <br class="br">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)

Funny, Dogs, Lying, Time

“‎Halt looked up at the trees above him.
"Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees.
Naturally, they didn't answer.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Ruins of Gorlan

Question, Nature, Tree

“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

Girl

“Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy?”

Jaclyn Moriarty (1968) Australian writer

Source: The Year of Secret Assignments

“Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!”

Anthony Horowitz book Skeleton Key

Source: Skeleton Key

“You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“I thought she'd make some comment about the bloodthirsty gods chasing us, but when she finally found her voice, she said, "That boy kissed you!"
Leave it to Liz to have her priorities straight.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

God, Kiss

“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

“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Life, Time

“You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Thinking

“He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.”

Louise Rennison book Withering Tights

Source: Withering Tights

Dreams

“Blah, blah, blah. Demon boy, I can't speak that language. Furthermore, I don't want to pollute my brain by learning it. So it's time for you to learn mine. First lesson-I'm Say-been. I'm oft described as byoo-tee-full and mah-jest'ick.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Kiss of a Demon King

Learning, Time

“This perplexing, good natured boy who can spin out lies so convincingly to be hopelessly in love with me… and I admit it there are moments when he makes me believe it myself.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Love, Nature

“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

“I don’t need to be reminded that we’re up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we’re the gods-damned sharks.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

God, Water

“People say I'm not much of a girl either," Tiger Lily said.
She thought of Tik Tok, who was fond of saying that people were all bits of each thing, boy and girl.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

People, Girl

“I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it; it's a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.”

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

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Thinking, Heart, Personality

“Boys do tell you how they really feel. I think you just have to be in the right place at the right time or maybe be the right person”

Kieran Scott (1974) American writer

Source: Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

Feeling, Thinking, Time, Personality

“Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy!”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

Love

“Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.”

Kate DiCamillo book Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

Men, War, History, Fight

“Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments.
Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

Source: A New Hope

“I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye

Girl, Tear

“But that was Isabelle — if there was a boy around and blame that needed to be pinned on someone, Isabelle would pin it on him”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“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

Dance

“Everyone knows ladies love Cajuns. It's in our blood and our language is the language of romance."
"Your language is the language of bullshit. You're just a couple of good ole boys with pretty faces. Women just ought to know better.”

Christine Feehan book Night Game

Source: Night Game

Love, Women

“Nico realized he was still leaning against Will. He pushed him away and stood on his own two feet.
‘I’ll do what I need to.’
Will rolled his eyes. ‘Fine, Death Boy. If you want to get yourself killed –’
‘Do not call me Death Boy!”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Death

“When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”

Ray Bradbury book The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree

Death, Fear, Star

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Silence

Life

“When he woke, daylight was coming through the glass floor, and a boy's voice said, "Oh… You are in so much trouble.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“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.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

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.

Way