“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.”

“Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed”

“My problem now was that no one was will- ing to look deep enough to see the real me that lay dormant beneath the surface. Everyone thought I was a trouble maker, the bad boy, the punk.I wasn’t. I was just broken. - Chase”

“She was at the age when she looked as much like an overgrown boy as a girl. And on that subject why was it that the smartest people mostly missed that point? By nature all people are of both sexes. So that marriage and the bed is not all by any means. The proof? Real youth and old age. Because often old men's voices grow high and reedy and the take on a mincing walk. And old women sometimes grow fat and their voices get rough and deep and the grow dark little mustaches.”

“And isn't that what all boys want and all men, too? Just to be taken seriously?”

“All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.”