“Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer.”

“You should give up.''Why?''For one thing, you'll live longer.''Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.”

“Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.”

“Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.”

“Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.”

“A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.”