What a Boy Wants Quotes

“I'll be like your bodyguard or something. Me Tarzan. You Jane.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“Still I pulled her into a hug, because I knew she let me off the hook on purpose and yeah, I'm a guy and I love my mom. So shoot me. I'm man enough to hug her without feeling like a mama's boy.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“We're guys. Half the time, we don't know who we are. It helps things become a lot easier if we know who you are.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“Our lips moved together perfectly. A perfect match. Because we had skills like that.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“If you have to use the words, “deep down” all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to see and not what's really there.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“That’s life. We win some, we lose some, but you can’t live your life afraid of making mistakes.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“It was freaky how once you realized you loved someone, and they felt the same way about you, they could look different, yet the same; how they felt familiar, but not.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“What’s the point in protecting yourself when it keeps you from feeling anything?”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“Jaden: "Dude, you've found something wrong with every girl. I'm about to play this one solo if you can't make up your mind."
Bastian: "We're not trying to decide between a Big Mac or a chicken sandwich here. This is some serious shit. We want epicness, we have to be choosy.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“It was strange. That little zing that went through me when she looked up with those big green eyes. It was at that moment I wondered why girls ever needed me - The Hook-up Doctor, I mean. If they had all the power she had in those eyes, they could have anything they wanted.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“See, girls have it easy. Smile and bat you lashes and we're defenseless.”
― nyrae dawn, What a Boy Wants

“¿Acaso esto era de lo que se trataba el amor? ¿Pensar que una chica se veía hermosa en su pijama y sus gafas? ¿Que probablemente yo era el único que ella había dejado que la viera usándolas? ¿Era esa una cosa buena o una cosa mala?”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“I felt the water rising enough to touch my Vans. She was worth ruing a pair of shoes over.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“I was totally aware of that one spot [where she touched me] more than I'd been aware of anything in my whole life.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

“I was still mad at her, but it felt different when I could see her than when I couldn't. Watching her took some of that anger away.”
― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants