“ Thank you," I said bravely, dropping the syllables cleanly, like marbles, and secretly full of the most pathetic pride imaginable. I had spoken to strangers. Alexis Hall
“ And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose? Ava Gardner
“ Success is a relative thing―and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity. H.P. Lovecraft
“ Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]It's meAnd who is the poet writing this poem?That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles Pierre Albert-Birot