"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you."
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

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

"Some people are boys longer than others."
— Patricia Briggs (Iron Kissed)

"Boys. I'd turn gay if they weren't so sexy. "
— Rachel Caine (The Dead Girls' Dance)

"'Do you like him much?'
'I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'
'Is he?'
'All boys are.'"
— Charlotte Brontë (Villette)

"...good shoes will take you to a nice place."

-in Hana Yori Dango."
— Kamio Youko

"Did you read the part that says, 'Your hair is like a flock of goats'? How romantic is that? Or that other line, 'Your neck is like the tower of David.' Oh, now, that sounds real attractive! If some guy tried those lines on me, I'm sure I'd fall instantly in love with him."
— Robin Jones Gunn (As You Wish)

"Prince Ronald said, Elizabeth, your hair is all dirty. You are wearing an ugly paper bag. You don't have any shoes on and you smell like a dragon's ear. Come back and rescue me when you're dressed like a real princess.

Elizabeth said, Ronald, your hair is all nice. Your clothes are all pretty. You look like a nice guy, but guess what? You are a bum.

They didn't get married after all."
— Robert Munsch (The Paper Bag Princess)

"Boys Shack, MEN build homes
"
— Steve Harvey

"First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys."
— Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes)

"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years."
— James Thurber

"I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn’t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched."
— Jamie O'Neill

"You know, you hear about these movements for women, and for children, and for people who are any race but white, and you think that it's about time that men got a movement. Think about it. Guys can't play the piano, or dance, or sing. We can't cry, or be too happy, or show any emotion for that matter. The only thing we have left to us is anger, and even that we have to bottle up. Boys should be able to express what they feel and not have to endure people laughing at them, forcing them to wonder if they're gay or not, just because they like to paint."
— Alex Sanchez

""But where do you live mostly now?"
"With the lost boys."
"Who are they?"
"They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain."
"What fun it must be!"
"Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship."
"Are none of the others girls?"
"Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.""
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

""I'm sorry I'm so pathetic," he thought, and then realized he had also said it.

Beth laughed, so lightly and so kindly that Denis felt it in his chest, not his stomach.

"Can I tell you a secret?"

Yes, tell me all your secrets Denis kept to himself.

Beth leaned in, whispered: "All boys are pathetic.""
— Larry Doyle (I Love You, Beth Cooper)

"Ichigo Ichie
--Nishikado Soujiroh"
— Yoko Kamio (Boys Over Flowers: Hana Yori Dango, Volume 1)

"A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide."
— Mickey Mantle

"I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio."
— Trey from "Boy Crazy" by Hailey Abbott

"Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months."
— Yvonne Collins (Girl v. Boy)

"In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter-they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught."
— Eoin Colfer (Half-Moon Investigations)

"To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible."
— Alain Robbe-Grillet (Djinn)

"But without William K, I would have forgotten that I had not been born on this journey. That I had lived before this."
— Dave Eggers (What Is the What)

"Black as night, sweet as sin."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

"...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

"The problem with boys your age is that they're your age."
— Karen Bennett

"" Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary " "
— John Keating (Dead Poets Society)

"In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter-they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught."
— Eoin Colfer (Half-Moon Investigations)

"Girls do what they want. Boys do what they can."
— Anonymous

"Boys are like toilets...they are either taken or full of crap."
— M.G.

"The first one is the worst one when it comes to a broken heart."
— Boys Like Girls

"Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of without making any effort at all. I don't have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue. I don't have to think about whether I do these things well, as well as a boy. All I have to do is sit on the floor and cut frying pans our of the Eaton's Catalogue with embroidery scissors, and say I've done it badly."
— Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)

"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"
— Carlo Collodi (Pinocchio)

"Grey morning dulled the bay. Banks of clouds, Howth just one more bank, rolled to sea, where other Howths grumbled to greet them. Swollen spumeless tide. Heads that bobbed like floating gulls and gulls that floating bobbed like heads. Two heads. At swim, two boys."
— Jamie O'Neill