130 Boy Quotes

When it comes to capturing the spirit and essence of boyhood, words have a special way of resonating with our hearts. Whether you're looking to inspire, reflect, or simply share the joy and challenges of raising boys, the right quotes can make all the difference. In this blog post, we've meticulously compiled a collection of the top 130 boy quotes that encapsulate the adventurous, mischievous, and tender moments that define the journey of growing up. Dive in and find the perfect words that speak to your experience or provide a sprinkle of wisdom and joy to your day.

1. “If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.” - Christine de Pizan

2. “First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.” - Ray Bradbury

3. “The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.” - Markus Zusak

4. “Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.” - Khaled Hosseini

5. “Some people are boys longer than others.” - Patricia Briggs

6. “...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.” - Louisa May Alcott

7. “A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.” - Mickey Mantle

8. “Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.” - James Thurber

9. “You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.” - Tamora Pierce

10. “Boys Shack, MEN build homes” - Steve Harvey

11. “I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.” - Wendell Berry

12. “ 'Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken?” - Ally Carter

13. “Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of without making any effort at all. I don't have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue. I don't have to think about whether I do these things well, as well as a boy. All I have to do is sit on the floor and cut frying pans our of the Eaton's Catalogue with embroidery scissors, and say I've done it badly.” - Margaret Atwood

14. “The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.” - Carrie Underwood

15. “THE LUXE IS . . .Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn.Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions.White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.This is Manhattan in 1899.” - Anna Godbersen

16. “Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

17. “Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!” - Carlo Collodi

18. “Boys will be boys, that's what people say. No one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether. We are to stifle the same feelings that boys are encouraged to display. We are to use gossip as a means of policing ourselves -- this way those who do succumb to sex but are not damaged by it are damaged instead by peer malice. Girls demand a covenant because if one gives in, others will be expected to do the same. We are to remain united in cruelty, ignorance, and aversion. Or we are to starve the flesh from our bones, penalizing the body for its nature, castigating ourselves for advances we are powerless to prevent. We are to make false promises then resist the attentions solicited. Basically we are to become expert liars.” - Hilary Thayer Hamann

19. “There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?” - kate dicamillo

20. “Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it’s too homo for them to handle.” - Megan McCafferty

21. “I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.” - Gabrielle Zevin

22. “Boys. I'd turn gay if they weren't so sexy. ” - Rachel Caine

23. “I'm sorry I'm so pathetic," he thought, and then realized he had also said it.Beth laughed, so lightly and so kindly that Denis felt it in his chest, not his stomach.Can I tell you a secret?"Yes, tell me all your secrets Denis kept to himself.Beth leaned in, whispered: "All boys are pathetic.” - Larry Doyle

24. “But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora."Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy. ...” - Gene Stratton-Porter

25. “Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.Make your lives extraordinary” - Williams Robin Professor Keating

26. “And Nate? You kiss like a slobbering dog, you have bad breath, and you wouldn't know how to punch the right buttons on a girl if we came with manuals. Happy Thanksgiving, Jackass.” - Elizabeth Eulberg

27. “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.” - Yvonne Collins

28. “His [Luke]letter went something like this: "Dear Mr President, Thank you for introducing me to the Hall of Famers and for showing me the Oval Office. I think if I work really hard I will have a chance for both."The next time I saw the president I told him about my son's ambitious plans. His response was beautiful: "Never get between a boy and his dreams” - Tim Russert

29. “I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?""Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example.""Why not?""Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff.""Like ride bikes?" I said."No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And...""Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?""They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference.” - Sarah Dessen

30. “wake up who cares about little boys that talk too much” - Mr. Big

31. “I don't know why you care. He doesn't even know you're there” - NSYNC

32. “Won't you be my girlfriend I'll treat you goodI know you hear your friends when they say you should 'Cause if you were my girlfriend I'd be your shining star The one to show you where you are” - NSYNC

33. “Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear” - Bon Jovi

34. “Boys are idiots.Girls are idiots, too, of course, but boys are a special kind of idiot.A girl, for instance, will vote for a boy in an election, or go to a movie that's about a boy, or buy a book that features a boy hero (or villain). Boys are much less likely to return the favor. They can't wrap their feeble minds around the idea that this girl might have anything in common with them. It's like they can't recognize girls as human beings.” - Josh Lieb

35. “Boys were so proud - you always had to let them think they were good at things.” - Diane Zahler

36. “Did you read the part that says, 'Your hair is like a flock of goats'? How romantic is that? Or that other line, 'Your neck is like the tower of David.' Oh, now, that sounds real attractive! If some guy tried those lines on me, I'm sure I'd fall instantly in love with him.” - Robin Jones Gunn

37. “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.” - Hailey Abbott

38. “Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them.” - Sierra

39. “It's a secret code," said Calvin. "Girls are not not like boys. If a boy wants to kill you, he says 'I'm going to kill you.' If a girl wants to kill you, she says, 'We need to talk.' That's the code."I gasped. "Has a girl ever wanted to talk to you?" I asked. "Yup," said Calvin."How come you're still alive?" I asked."I vomited," said Calvin.” - Lenore Look

40. “Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose!” - Lincoln Peirce

41. “Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer” - Samuel Clemmons

42. “When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.” - C. JoyBell C.

43. “This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.” - Elizabeth Berg

44. “Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an outfit. There are times when you couldn't do without them. And there are times when you'd rather do without them. Get the wrong ones and they can hurt. There are many types and often the ones that look the nicest are completely unpractical.” - Rachel Hill

45. “Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.” - Jess C. Scott

46. “Black as night, sweet as sin.” - Neil Gaiman

47. “Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it.They chose each other.Just then, the dark sky lit up with fireworks. A cab sailing the street honked in celebration . In the night air , Nate thought he could hear Serena and Blairs' laughter, though he knew that was impossible; they were too far away by now.But as we know, in this city anything is possible” - Cecily von Ziegesar

48. “Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia” - Aimee Bender

49. “Fact: I don't know of a single girl who doesn't wish the show-it-all boxer-shorts phenomenon would go away as well. Guys, we just don't want to see your underwear. Truthfully, we believe that there is a direct correlation between how much underwear you show and how much you've got upstairs, if you know what I mean.” - Lisa Samson

50. “Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.” - Louisa May Alcott

51. “I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?” - Adriana Trigiani

52. “I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores” - Adriana Trigiani

53. “Really? We are being herded on a bus to drive across town to an all-boy academy where we disembark and join our lonely counterparts on a dance floor. Sounds like a scorecard situation to me.” - Adriana Trigiani

54. “... but that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy - and as far as boys go, to the only expert I know - Suzanne Santry” - Adriana Trigiani

55. “Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don't feed the source, it dissipates entirely.Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you're free to find a boy who is attainable.” - Adriana Trigiani

56. “This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap...” - Adriana Trigiani

57. “Boys are like elastic bands. It doesn't mean that boys are made of elastic, which is a plus because nobody wants a boyfriend made out of rubber. On the other hand, if they were made out of rubber, you could save yourself a lot of time and effort and heartache by just rustling one up out of a car tire. Boys are different from girls. Girls like to be cozy all the time but boys don't. First of all, they like to get all close to you like a coiled-up rubber band, but after a while, they get fed up with being too coiled and need to stretch away to their full stretchiness. Then, after a bit of on-their-own strategy, they ping back to be close to you. So in conclusion on the boy front, you have to play hard to get and also let them be elastic bands.” - Louise Rennison

58. “Defend myself? I cannot defend the verbal repressions of a boy. A curmudgeonly, cantankerous, ill-tempered, counterfeit boy.” - Jamie Weise

59. “See" Kayla links her arm through mine, leaving Blake to jostle and race the other guys. "I tell them I can handle my own stuff, but it's like a mark of pride or something. I'm surprised Blake doesn't just hoist me over his shoulder and try to carry me, too!"I laugh, starting to relax. "Is it bad I can actually picture that?” - Abby McDonald

60. “Why,' I said, quite surprised by my own eloquence in inventing all this stuff, 'it happens every day. The old old story. Boys and girls fall in love, that is, they are driven mad and go blind and deaf and see each other not as human animals with comic noses and bandy legs and voices like frogs, but as angels so full of shining goodness that like hollow turnips with candles put into them, they seem miracles of beauty. And the next minute the candles shoot out sparks and burn their eyes. And they seem to each other like devils, full of spite and cruelty. And they will drive each other mad unless they have grown some imagination. Even enough to laugh.” - Joyce Cary

61. “Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?” - Sarah Dessen

62. “Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.” - John Green

63. “I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.” - Jennifer Donnelly

64. “Evan stopped completely. He was staring at her with those intense eyes. Staring right into her. Just like he had in those couple of moments when she had thought for a split second, that he wanted to kiss her.” - Kate Brian

65. “You still know that boy. He was very angry at fourteen, fifteen, in summer and winter, at home or in the world. So angry that his face contorted in photos. The camera was a question and his face did not know the answer.” - Dave Eggers

66. “Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.” - Jennifer L. Armentrout

67. “Obsessing over a boy makes the time fly.” - Alecia Whitaker

68. “Suddenly I register that St. Clair is shorter than Josh. Much shorter. It’s odd I didn’t notice earlier, but he doesn’t carry himself like a short guy. Most are shy or defensive, or some messed-up combination of the two, but St. Clair is confident and friendly and—” - Stephanie Perkins

69. “Genius or jock, it didn't seem to matter. Boys were born with a gene that kept girls, no matter how smart they might be, from understanding them.” - Charity Tahmaseb

70. “The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.” - Beverly Cleary

71. “I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.” - John Green

72. “In her experience, there were only two kinds of guys: the ones into sports and the ones into video gaming. It seemed guys had to be obsessed with something, whether it was watching a game or playing in it or keeping some weird collection related to it.” - Victoria Kahler

73. “— Так, мальчик… — Графиня пошарила в кармане. — Ты доведешь нас еще за несколько пенсов до Солсбери-Корта?— До Солсбери-Корта? Этого логова грубых и жестоких дикарей? Поздно ночью? В туман? И без мужской защиты? — Мальчик скорчил гримасу и пустился наутек, крича на ходу: — Ни за что на свете!” - Fidelis Morgan

74. “I would not trade any of these features for anybody else’s. I wouldn’t trade the small thin-lipped mouth that makes me resemble my nephew. I wouldn’t even trade the acne scar on my right cheek, because that recurring zit spent more time with me in college than any boy ever did.” - Tina Fey

75. “Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to "man-up" is to empower women.” - Steve Maraboli

76. “A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

77. “Every guy seems nice until he’s not.” - Claire LaZebnik

78. “Personally, I'd prefer a guy who wants to see my boobs.” - Sarah Rees Brennan

79. “Do real boys actually call girls baby? I don't have enough experience to know. I do know that if a guy ever called me baby, I'd probably laugh in his face. Or choke him.” - Katja Millay

80. “Boat.Toby.1pm.Shit!” - C.J. Duggan

81. “He slid over to me and grabbed me closer to him. My smile fell from my face with the unexpectedness of it. His hands cupped my face, his lips hovering above mine.“You seriously want to know, Tess?”He closed the space and claimed my mouth with an urgent, hot, delving kiss.He smiled. “You are sexy, in your own goofball way, you’re sweet and beautiful and smart and funny and, although you kiss to the point where I feel like I want to go back for seconds, you’re my best friend, and that’s why I don’t want to tap that.” - C.J. Duggan

82. “Do you want some words of advice, Tess?”I glanced at Adam’s profile as he sipped.“Don’t give your heart away too easily.” He turned to me. “Make him earn it.” - C.J. Duggan

83. “I think I’m going to cut down on my dating,’ Annie said. ‘I used to need a lot of attention. You know, to make up for that empty feeling inside. But boys aren’t always the answer.” - Francine Pascal

84. “Tess, will you marry me?" Toby laughed.” - C.J. Duggan

85. “Well, if they set you in the kissing booth, let me know, I am always willing to donate for a worthy cause.” - C.J. Duggan

86. “She is something else.” - C.J. Duggan

87. “When you knock off work tonight, go looking for Toby, because, trust me, he will be looking for you.” - C.J. Duggan

88. “He looked at me now."Remember I said, 'what if I didn't want to fix your bike?'"I remembered. "Yes...""I didn't want to fix it, because I liked driving you places.” - C.J. Duggan

89. “I may have been buzzed last night, but I remember everything. I can't promise you that I won't want to drive you home, or kiss you like crazy again. Because I will. I do.” - C.J. Duggan

90. “I like you, Tess.” - C.J. Duggan

91. “Can we get out of here?""Your chariot awaits.""In the form of a blue Ford ute?" I curved my brow."But of course," he said in an over-the-top French accent."Sacre blur, bad accent alert!""Wow," he said, "Le rude?""Le sorry?""Le hurt." Toby clutched his heart."What can I do to soothe your shattered ego?"Toby drummed his chin thoughtfully, pacing around me. He stopped just near enough to whisper in my ear."Le kiss?” - C.J. Duggan

92. “What do you know? This is where it all began,” he said.“Began?”“This is exactly where I was when I wanted to kiss you,” he whispered, his lips brushing along my neck causing me to melt under his touch. “So bad.”“Except this time there’s no drunk netballer squawking at us,” I teased.“I wouldn’t care if the seven horseman of the Apocalypse charged through the garden right now, nothing’s gonna stop me from doing this.” He leaned down and captured my lips with tenderness, a completely perfect kiss, like it always was.” - C.J. Duggan

93. “So if I was to choose? Then I choose complicated,” I said, with a nod of finality. I met his eyes again in a silent challenge.“I choose you.” - C.J. Duggan

94. “That’s the thing. I’ve never met anyone like you, Tess. You think you’re a no one? You’re so wrong. So wrong. You stand in a room with all the Angelas, even the Ellies. None of them can compare to you. I remember when you started working at the Onslow, I couldn’t keep my eyes off you. You were so terrified. You weren’t full of yourself like other girls. Every time you walked into the bar, you were like a breath of fresh air. Even when Angela was a bitch to you, you rose above it. You made me see the difference in people. You’re not a nobody, Tess, you’re a somebody.” - C.J. Duggan

95. “If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.” - C.J. Duggan

96. “A 'T' for Tess, a 'T' for Toby.” - C.J. Duggan

97. “lying in bed with Johnny Depp sussing out which males are what kind of pet from their clothes.” - Diane Messidoro

98. “Boys are like minced meat, half nut, half pig” - Pernilla Paaso

99. “Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman’s tenderness.” - E.M. Forster

100. “A thing of beauty is a boy forever.” - Carl Van Vechten

101. “...he would tell stories about the Holy City, about Solomon, a just king, a poet-king, a monarch with a thousand concubines. We weren't quite sure what concubines were, but we guessed: a concubine ... Concubines! One thousand! One thousand women in all colours and shapes - but all of them sexy, of course - one thousand - one thousand raving beauties lying side by side on a bed (what a bed! How wide it must have been!), all of them smiling, all of them reaching out their arms, all of them saying something in Hebrew - but the meaning was unmistakeable - "Come here, sweety." One thousand women. If one were to spend twenty, or fifteen minutes with each one of them, how long would it take to...? A problem that our math teacher never assigned us for homework...!” - Moacyr Scliar

102. “While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp.'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.''That's your only comment?' Piper demanded.He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--''I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.''That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.''Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said.Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys.” - Rick Riordan

103. “Guys who know how to use a blowdryer... Their hair is too long!” - Mallory hopkins

104. “Por desgracia, él no se conformaba con besarme, siempre quería meterme la mano por debajo del jersey. Yo no se lo permitía porque pensaba que ya había tiempo para eso. Una opinión que él no compartía. Por eso, en una fiesta de confirmandos, metió la mano debajo del jersey de otra, justo delante de mis ojos. Y el mundo que yo conocía acabó en aquel momento.” - David Safier

105. “Όταν προτιμούνται τα αγόρια από τα κορίτσια, τα συμπλέγματα κατωτερότητας στα κορίτσια είναι σχεδόν αναπόφευκτα. Τα παιδιά είναι πολύ ευαίσθητα και ακόμα και ένα πολύ καλό παιδί μπορεί να πάρει μια ολότελα λαθεμένη κατεύθυνση στη ζωή εξαιτίας της υποψίας του ότι προτιμούν τους άλλους.” - Άλφρεντ Άντλερ

106. “My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they have to leap off into the woods like gazelles in trousers. Or have I just made that up?” - Louise Rennison

107. “He taunted me, "Pony boy, pony boy," because I liked ponies. Pony boy. He always came to vent his anger of dragons on me. They must really like us. They hide behind their Wasp Queen and pretend to hate us dragons, but in truth they love us. Why else would they bother with fucking us? That sentence probably turned you off. Thing is, I'm a very vulgar boy.-Chance Karrucci (the Sweet Dragon)” - Chanceus Karrucci

108. “Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys.” - Jessica Park

109. “The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.” - Libba Bray

110. “Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not "down". It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came [...] So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep.” - Mark Twain

111. “Tidak ada yang jagoan di bumi ini, sekalipun dia seorang Bruce Lee atau Old Shatterhand. Lelaki memang harus keras, tapi bukan berarti kekerasan. Keras dalam arti menghadapi hidup dan menggeluti hidup yang serba susah ini. Lelaki memang harus begitu.” - Gola Gong

112. “Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.” - John Green

113. “Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy?” - Jaclyn Moriarty

114. “I’m doing boy detox. Like a diet, only for my emotional health.” - Becca Fitzpatrick

115. “I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys.” - Jennifer L. Armentrout

116. “If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome.” - Belinda Jeffrey

117. “Maybe attraction was aligned in heaven before our birth because there was no other way to explain my feelings. There were millions of boys on the earth. Why did it feel so strong?” - Belinda Jeffrey

118. “AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.” - Norton Juster

119. “I keep myself busy with things to do, but every-time i pause, i still think f you.” - Courtt

120. “The reason girls can't find a good guy is because they look in the wrong places. Go to a library. Guys at a party are just looking for the next girl to fuck.” - Brandon Hall

121. “What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're ok?” - The Script

122. “The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.” - Benjamin Alire Saenz

123. “We look for pretty girls we can say bad things to. No one shows up.” - Ida Løkås

124. “That’s when I realized it. I liked this girl. A lot. I liked her super-moist double chocolate chip cupcakes. I liked how kind and patient she was with the guests, the way her forehead crinkled when she was thinking about a problem. I liked her low, soft voice and that long ribbon of platinum-blond hair. I liked the way she looked at the world, as if it were an okay place, where good things were actually possible. ” - Anne Pfeffer

125. “Perempuan memang tidak bisa diajak berpikir jernih jika menyangkut perihal lelaki. Dalam situasi seperti ini, kepala mereka dipenuhi kabur merah muda bernama dopamine yang meracuni sel-sel kelabu mereka dengan berbagai ide romantis yang absurd.” - Windry Ramadhina

126. “Some boys... Are perfect shits. & other boys are very, very beautiful.” - Benjamin Alire Saenz

127. “I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt's the living together afterward that's tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It's an achievement.that marriage is not for kids It takes guts and maturity.It separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.I tell them that marriage is tested dily by the ability to compromise.Its survival can depend on being smart enough to know what's worth fighting about.Or making an issue of or even mentioning.Marriage is giving - and more important, it's forgiving.And it is almost always the wife who must do these things.Then, as if that were not enough, she must be willing to forget what she forgave.Often that is the hardest part.Oh, I have leveled all right.If they don't get my message, Buster,It's because they don't want to get it.Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocalsBecause nobody wants to red the small print in dreams.” - Ann Landers

128. “Did you ever think about boys?' I say, staring up into the dark. 'There wasn't room,' she whispers, and her voice is unbelievably sad. 'At first, after Connor, I was just waiting. I was going to get a new boyfriend soon- as soon as I was prettier or better, more perfect. But after a while there was no room for anything else. If I though about kissing or sex, I just started feeling ugly, too awful for anything good.” - Brenna Yovanoff

129. “Little boys run in gangs, grown men organise teams.” - Habeeb Akande

130. “She dressed in bohemian clothes, penned novels, panted, and yearned to roam forgotten corners of the world. She was habitually defiant and fearless, and when she felt controlled, as she often did, she could be irresistibly willfull. Mostly, she was bored silly by the vanilla sort boys who trailed her around, and by the stodgy set in Miami Beach.” - Laura Hillenbrand