Boys Quotes

He hadn’t said a word to me until we had been roommates for eight months. And even then it had only been, “You’re wearing my socks.

~ Melody J. Bremen

Of all the emotional relationships in life, is there any more delicate, more noble, and more intense than a boy's deep and yet so totally bashful love for another boy? The kind of love that never speaks, never dares give way to a caress, a glance, or a word, the kind of vigilant love that bitterly grieves over every shortcoming or imperfection in the one who is loved, a love which is longing and admiration and negation of self, and which is pride and humility and calmly breathing happiness.

~ Jens Peter Jacobsen

Everything man sees he takes for a toy. 'Thus is he always, forever a boy.

~ Jessie Burton

I was told very sternly at the hospital to avoid boys at all costs. Mess up your levels.Oh, they do that! Amy laughs. Probably best to leave them alone for a while. The secret, though, is to start with one you're not that bothered about.What is the point in that?

~ Teri Terry

UGH. Boys. They're like French class--no matter how much I study, I'll never be fluent in the language.

~ Jen Calonita

All these boys were lethal. It really wasn't fair.

~ Stacey Marie Brown

What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?

~ Aleksandar Hemon

There is a differenece between a bad boy and a boy that's bad for you.

~ Dannika Dark

Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him.

~ Madeline Miller

- Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Boys. Drau or mortal, they were all the same.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

High time he had another tutor,' said Larry. 'You leave the house for five minutes and come back and find him disembowelling Moby Dick on the front porch.' 'I'm sure he didn't mean any harm,' said Mother, ' but it was rather silly for him to do it on the veranda.

~ Gerald Durrell

Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.

~ Kameron Hurley

Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.

~ Elizabeth Camden

I had never been interested in boys and had no notion that I ever would, seeing being in love and loving as a great tangle in which you could lose your head as well as your heart. Yet standing there that afternoon looking at the young man. I could well see how such knots in life were made.

~ Sally Gardner

Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyways, following Jem about... He only grew closer to Jem. (Lee 55)

~ Harper Lee

If Levi were a dog, he'd be a golden retriever. If he were a game, he'd be a Ping-Pong, incessant and bouncing and light.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Why are all pretty boys insane?

~ Justina Ireland

We don't have the luxury of thinking ... Some people make all the decisions for us

~ John Boyne

If you ignore the mountain, doesn't mean mountain will ignore you too..

~ Tanveer Mazhar

The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on their motivation and their connectedness with the real world.

~ Leonard Sax

I have had my share with boys,longings are for men heron.

~ Pushpa Ranana

I glanced over, he was still looking at me. ''Uh... do you need something?''''No.''''Oh, okay.''''It's just...'' he leaned in, ''...you have an onion ring taped to your back.''''...Excuse me?''''There is a ring of onion applied to you back with an adhesive strip.''I searched his eyes, he seemed amused, but sincere.My hand flew to my back with a look of horror and there it was, with ketchup and everything.

~ Maddie Hample

It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slamdunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

~ Irving Stone

She could think of no other reason for this boy to continue to visit her if not to use her in some way.

~ Morgan Rhodes

There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.

~ Andrew Smith

But I didn't. I didn't say anything, if only because I had no idea how to respond to such an overture. If my experience with friends was sparse, what I knew about boys- other than a competitors for grades or class rank- was nonexistent

~ Sarah Dessen

We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day of Laurie's confinement, that actually one good scare like that could probably mark a child for life, and my husband pointed out that kids frequently have an instinctive desire to follow the good example rather than the bad, once they find out which is which. We agreed that a good moral background and thorough grounding in the Hardy Boys would always tell in the long run.(Arch-Criminal)

~ Shirley Jackson

Boys are found everywhere- on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerated them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. A boy is a magical creature- you can lock out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up- he is your captor, your jailor, your boss and your master- a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words- 'Hi, Dad!

~ Alan Beck

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

~ Sherwood Anderson

He’s beautiful and broody, what’s not to like?

~ Katrina Abbott

Apparently if you want to get a boy to like you, you go sort of mysterious and icy and cool. That’s what my cousin said and she has loads of boyfriends and snogging-type experiences.

~ Louise Rennison

He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.

~ Sara Sheridan

Don’t ever worry what the boys who don’t appreciate originality think of you. They’re fools.

~ Cat Winters

The best boyfriends are the ones in books.

~ Leah Blundell

Sometimes I wish I was a guy. Life’s so much easier for them.

~ Cath Crowley

A nonhot boy stares at you and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy...well.

~ John Green

What George was thinking was that the late king Herod had been unjustly blamed for a policy which had been both statesmanlike and in the interests of the public. He was blaming the mawkish sentimentality of the modern legal system which ranks the evisceration and secret burial of small boys as a crime.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

Boys. Nine times out of ten, they're wrong and the tenth time they made a lucky guess.

~ Kirn Hans

He tip-toed past the double bed that had been placed in a corner - wrought-iron headboard, embroidered pillows, amulets against the evil-eye and a satiny, cobalt-blue bedspread. Blue was Iskender's favourite colour. It was the colour for boys, which meant the sky was a boy. So were the rivers and lakes. And the oceans, though he had yet to see one.

~ Elif Shafak