“I'd also believe that all teenage boys go around calling girls baby, because apparently that's the express train to romance.”
“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.”
“But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.”
“I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.”
“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”
“Girls who kiss boys, girls who date them, girls who call them on the phone... that's all they do. There are other things I want to do.”