Boys Against Girls Quotes

“Peter was leaning his elbows on the end of the table, a piece of bread smeared with peanut butter in his hands, chewing wide eyed with his mouth open.
Wally tried not to look. Whenever Wally was really hungry at school and didn’t think he could hold out until noon, he thought about the way half-chewed bread and peanut butter looked in Peter’s mouth, and he wasn’t hungry anymore.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Boys Against Girls

“Be right back,” Jake told her.
Wally said nothing. He was thinking how their last words to her would be “Be right back,” and twenty years later they’d get out of prison.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Boys Against Girls

“We’re dead,” said Wally. “We are cooked! Fried!”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Boys Against Girls

“This always happened. No matter how much Wally tried to stay out of trouble, he didn’t.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Boys Against Girls

“Caroline didn’t know whether she was more angry or excited. Every time the boys did something to them, it just gave the girls an excuse to do something worse.”
― Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Boys Against Girls