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Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; ...

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Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying.

The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-s...

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Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms a...

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It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!

...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.

Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their...

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Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about To...

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Only a very careless father would be inclined to tell you what I'm going to tell you. I suppose I'm ...

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Black as night, sweet as sin.

There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday ...

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the...

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What George was thinking was that the late king Herod had been unjustly blamed for a policy which ha...

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P. G. WodehouseA Damsel in Distress

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with,...

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P. G. WodehouseThe Adventures of Sally

It was not very long afterwards that Michael woke up one morning with a curious feeling inside him. ...

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P. L. TraversThe Rise of the Mafia : the definitive story of organized crime

They fight like puppies. They are young, and boys. They are full of anger and impatience. Women have...

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It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me.

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Samuel BeckettFirst Love and Other Novellas

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of ridin...

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But I didn't. I didn't say anything, if only because I had no idea how to respond to such an overtur...

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Sarah DessenAlong for the Ride

I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?""Like I said," he said a...

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Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and...

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We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day ...

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Shirley JacksonJust an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day ...

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Shirley JacksonJust an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day ...

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We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day ...

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He thought that fat boys were probably only allowed to love pretty girls inside. If he told anyone h...

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Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

I would not trade any of these features for anybody else’s. I wouldn’t trade the small thin-lipped m...

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I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you mig...

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It shall be an offence for any man, either a husband or other person of the male sex, married or oth...

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The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid ...

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Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched ...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeThe Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeThe Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed ...

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- Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.I was ...

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The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.

~Do you like him much?~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very mu...

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Do you like him much?'I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very mu...

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There’s nothing more dangerous than a boy with charm.

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Christina AguileraChristina Aguilera: "Back to Basics"

For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the c...

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You still know that boy. He was very angry at fourteen, fifteen, in summer and winter, at home or in...

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Dave EggersHow the Water Feels to the Fishes

For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woma...

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David BaddielWhatever Love Means

Women who are into Lord of The Rings & The Hobbit are, like, the coolest people in the world

I was twelve. You were girls, and therefore an entirely different species.

When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn’t w...

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In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are sm...

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High time he had another tutor,' said Larry. 'You leave the house for five minutes and come back and...

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Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyway...

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the nation's young men havebeen proved by surveys to be completely unmarriageable, and as a result t...

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A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: brea...

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Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages o...

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Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don’t like how this feels, and have the com...

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Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be...

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Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diam...

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A nonhot boy stares at you and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot b...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual app...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, aw...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear

We sat there smiling at each other, shimmied to a standstill, thinking about all the boys that had w...

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Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.

There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to cha...

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