Quotes of: Boy Keyword

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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Anansi Boys

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

About a Boy

I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.

Anansi Boys

Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman...

Anansi Boys

You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

About a Boy

Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.

Anansi Boys

We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene.

Apocalypse Now

She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!

His Last Mistress

They do not call him the terror of husbands and lovers for no reason...

His Last Mistress

Don’t put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Connor couldn't be sure, but he thought he heard him mumble, "First Dean, then McCall. These boys are dropping like flies.

His Million Dollar Risk

That is all I need to make a room full of happiness-two boys, one love, and a song.

How They Met, and Other Stories

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

The Halloween Tree

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

Imaginary Girls

I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.

The Illusion of Separateness

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

The Joy of Books

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

Jo's Boys

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

Jo's Boys

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Jo's Boys

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

The Jane Austen Book Club