Quotes of: Poster-boy Keyword

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians

He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.

First Boy

Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

Frozen Fire

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

The Fault in Our Stars

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

Foxglove Summer

I think children want to believe that they can be heroes too.

Gizmo and Ellen Mysteries: The Case of the Missing Boy

Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.

Girl v. Boy

Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.

Golden Boy

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

Golden Boy

If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys.

God Help the Child

History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.

Grasshopper Jungle

We made this stupid rule and this stupid rule. Boys are not allowed to love each other. Then we painted a bison on the wall.

Grasshopper Jungle

It was a boyish thing to do and it caught the hesitating girl in the depths of her heart, as the boy element in a man ever appeals to a motherly woman.

A Girl of the Limberlost

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

The Horse and His Boy

Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers. Scripps: No. Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

The History Boys

Despite their displays of bravado, young boys can be peculiarly susceptible to atmosphere ("Between Four Yews")

Best New Horror 24

Excuse me if I feel skeptical,' I said. 'Coach's foot fell off. How exactly do you propose to cure that? Superglue?

Bad Taste in Boys

I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.

Boy Crazy

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!

Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship

Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.

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