Quotes of: Boys-and-girls Keyword

But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do. Drop dead. Aw, you say the most romantic things.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.

A Horse Named Sorrow

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.

Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing

Spain, for so long a mere geographical expression, was somehow transformed into an historical fact.

Imperial Spain: 1469-1716

To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories.

J-Boys: Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

Jo's Boys

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

Jo's Boys

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.

The Republic of Thieves

Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

A Rumor Of War

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

The Sisters Brothers

They do say money is the root of all evil." I thought that was supposed to be the love of money." There's neat for you. 'Tis them without it that loves it best.

At Swim, Two Boys

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.

Speaker for the Dead

[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.

Spectrum: From Right to Left in the World of Ideas

I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.

Mornings in Jenin

There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -" "I am desolated!" "That's a good boy!

The Murder on the Links

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

Leaving Town Alive

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

Looking for Alaska

No sun cream or condoms, just in case you’re looking at the lady-boys. There’s plenty of AIDS lingering about and every STD you can imagine.

Lost Innocence: The Accused

Dust everywhere... and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I'd ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my feet.

Legend

Where have you come from boy?' He looked at her again. 'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.

The Left Hand of God