“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.”
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
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American writer 1920–2012Related quotes
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.”
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.”
Source: A Kiss in Time
“Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.”
"Gerontion"
Poems (1920)
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.”
The Evolution Tour: Live in Miami
2007, 2008
"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.”
Source: My Most Excellent Year