Boys And Girls Quotes

“With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why her? came up so quickly.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

“Unfortunately, he still hadn’t asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.”
― Kimberly Novosel, Loved

“When I was growing up, my mother enrolled me into the same classes as my brother so I learned karate, kung fu, and swimming. She also took us fishing, skateboarding, and to martial arts films. Needless to say, my mom was and still is cool. - Strong by Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow

“Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep your ears on offer if she wants to talk. But you can’t draw out the strangeness, Edgar. It’s not a poison.”
― Allyse Near, Fairytales for Wilde Girls

“I am wearing an old yellow sundress of Celia's, and I have tied my hair back with green ribbon. I think I look real nice. And all they see is the cake.”
― Jenny Han, Shug

“Boys,” Lindsay agreed, nodding. “What doesn't get lost in translation?”

“Things with the letter X in front of them,” Rachel posited. “Like X-Box. And X-rated movies.”
― Nenia Campbell, Fearscape

“Tears are the biggest weapon used by every girl against the boys with a success rate of hundred percent.”
― Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love

“In real life, I looked at my father and mother and understood dimly that it was harder to be a girl, that boys had it easier. Here, boys could buy and ride motorcycles and come and leave when they wanted to and exude a kind of cool while they stood shirtless at the edge of the street, talking and laughing with one another, passing a beer around, smoking cigarettes. Meanwhile, the women I knew were working even when they weren’t at work: cooking, washing loads of clothes, hanging them to dry, and cleaning the house. There was no time for them to just relax and be. Even then I dimly knew there was some gendered differences between my brother and me, knew that what the world expected of us and allowed us would differ.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir

“We are in a boy recession," Eugene repeats. "There's been a sudden, drastic decrease in the male population at this school. And I'm gonna take advantage of it.”
― Flynn Meaney, The Boy Recession

“I've been asking around to find out what girls are into," Eugene tells me, really pleased with himself. "So I'm gonna get a spray tan and make red-velvet cupcakes.”
― Flynn Meaney, The Boy Recession

“So that's how we end up helping Aviva pick out a male escort. Even Darcy is impressed with Eugene's organization; each profile in the boy binder has two pictures, a head shot and a full-body shot, and lists essential information: age, school, height, weight, extracurriculars, hobbies, and dance ability (which ranges from "occasional Dance Dance Revolution participation" to "so good he could back up the Biebs").”
― Flynn Meaney, The Boy Recession

“Boys always make things more complicated.”
― Katrina Abbott, Taking The Reins

“A machine, now, to help boys change from peach fuzz to briar bramble, girls from toadstools to nectarine.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“For a ten-year-old boy and a ten-year-old girl to become good friends was not easy under any circumstances. Indeed, it might be one of the most difficult accomplishments in the world.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“That was the first time a younger girl who looked dashing in glasses had said something like that to me. Well, that phrasing suggests that this was the first time that someone who was a girl; my junior; and also good-looking in glasses had said something like that. That's a bit of a misleading turn of phrase. Allow me to correct myself. That was the first time I had heard something like that from a girl who looked good in glasses, or from a girl who was my junior, or from a girl who was a xenor. Heck, no girl has ever taken an interest in me, as far as I can remember.”
― Torii Nagomu, 境界の彼方 [Kyoukai no Kanata]

“But I'll tell you a secret. You know what boys like? A woman who's happy with herself. Who's not making herself miserable with the Jane Fonda videotapes and complaining all the time about whether this part or that one's too big. And you know what else they like? She leaned in close, whispering into her granddaughter's ear. Good food.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Little Earthquakes

“My heart fluttered on Kaylee’s behalf. Being called lovely in an Irish accent…well that’s swoonworthy stuff, take my word for it.”
― Katrina Abbott, Masquerade

“Pourquoi toutes les mères étaient-elles si impatientes que leurs filles aient un petit ami ? Comme si la vraie vie ne commençait qu'avec les garçons.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“..It has not been easy for him, Miss Bobbit's going.Because she had meant more than that. Than what? Than being 13 years old and crazy in love.She was the queer things in him,like the pecan tree, and liking books and caring enough about people to let them hurt you.She was the things he was afraid to show anyone else.”
― Truman Capote, Children On Their Birthdays

“Eat your greens; put your napkin on your lap; if it doesn't belong to you, don't touch it. No running in the house (no, not even with scissors); call your mama; I love you and shut the door before all my ideas get out. - to my boys”
― Debbie Seagle, Coffee Cups & Wine Glasses: Hilarious Secrets to Heal a Broken Heart & Get Your Life Back! Includes Life Hacks & Journal Prompts for Happiness, Motivation & Brilliant Entertainment.

“There’s something familiar about the curve of her lower lip. The weight cradled by a soft, slender chin. The bow of her top lip sweeps across it in a way that makes me think of the sun setting on the horizon. A perfect paint stroke of pink to light the sky. -Excerpt from Born Wicked ©2014 A.D. Evans”
― A.D. Evans, Born Wicked

“You're human, that's what I like about you. Well not that you're a human, well yes that you're human but that you're a girl human.”
― Evelyn Smith, The Summer of Secrets

“We knew the boys weren't worthy of passing judgment on us. And yet we spent our lives chasing approval.”
― Elliott Holt, You Are One of Them

“Women, in our world, have never been sacrosanct. This obtuse thinking is merely a delusional conditioning of [man]kind.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“…females were possibly as complex and mysterious as the secrets of the universe.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exposed

“What never failed to amaze him was how girls could come up with thousands of questions in under a minute.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction