“ Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear. Simona Panova
“ No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy.… Carew Papritz
“ I’m gonna take a nap, Heaven,” he said, wanting away from her to clear his head. He didn’t like feeling uncomfortable in his house.“Haven,” she corrected him as he started to walk away.“I know,” he sa… J.M. Darhower
“ What does a freelance researcher do?” “Researches things.” He winks at me and helps lift my bike onto a cobblestone walkway. “It’s not an interesting or particularly sexy job. Nobody wants to date a p… Caroline George
“ Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ The good ones put your character to the flame and burn away all the rest of the shit until you come out a better you. Erin Watt
“ Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such stre… Simona Panova
“ My angel-boy is close now, as in five-feet-away close. There's no way I'm going to burst into song in front of him. But then the contrary part of me says, you're going to let a boy keep you from singi… Lauren Myracle
“ You amaze me and its hard for me to turn away and make it not so obvious that I'm looking at you. Shailee J-N
“ You looked strange climbing in the tree like that."Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign and strange to her. "I didn't do it to look nice," sh… Jodi Lynn Anderson
“ Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile… Ali Smith
“ He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed. Rick Yancey
“ And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brav… Ali Smith
“ As for Gus, he had come to Haddan with no appreciation for the human race and no expectations of his fellow man. He was full ready to confront contempt; he'd been beleaguered and insulted often enough… Alice Hoffman
“ It was snowing when I got off the bus at Flax Hill. Not quite regular snowfall, not exactly a blizzard. This is how it was: The snow came down heavily, settled for about a minute, then the wind moved… Helen Oyeyemi
