This Boy Quotes

“It’s okay if you’re not exactly happy, I think. Maybe you’re on the way to being happy”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“I’ve been thinking back to when I was younger, before I had a clue about benzos or purple drank or even weed. I was so innocent. I wish I could go back and be that dumbshit kid again, naïve and full of hope.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“Natalia, Kahlia and Helen are always saying “Love you!” to each other. They say it at school, at parties, at each other’s houses. They hug all the frickin time, too. Guys, on the other hand, bump fists and every so often hug their moms.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“Did everyone think about death practically every day, or was it just me? Did everyone wonder why we existed, and if life was nothing but a fluke?”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“If you have a girlfriend—when you have a girlfriend—make sure you take care of her just like she takes care of you.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“I almost fell into the trap of thinking too much about the moment instead of living the moment, which would have been disastrous, because once I start thinking like that, it’s hard to stop.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“Roby thought he should get “dibs” on Natalia because he claimed her first, that’s what he was arguing. I’m not convinced it works that way. Natalia has dibs on herself, that’s what I think.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“In fifty years, we’ll be like those old men who spend hours at all-day breakfast diners. We’ll have big ears and tufting sprouts of nose hair, and we’ll guffaw at everything the other says. Heh-heh-heh, you know it, Roby. Pass the damn ham.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“Roby was honest in a kind way. If I was being stupid, he told me. But he also talked me up, telling me my fashion sense was dope and that I had good taste in music.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“That’s why I love that kid. I can get a proper roasting from him and still be good friends.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“Paul, watching you hallucinate is boring as fuck,” Roby said. “If you want to chill, great. If you’re going to drink your stupid purple drank, I’m going to take off.” And he did. I kept drinking my stupid purple drank, and he left.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“I often get a particular wrinkled-nose look from Mom: mild revulsion mixed with fondness, as if she can’t quite believe she made me, this large, sometimes stinky, always untidy boy who double dips and chugs orange juice out of the carton even though she begs me not to.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“Wind in our hair, sun on our skin, school done for the day and stored safely on a shelf til tomorrow…damn, this being alive thing felt frickin awesome.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“Even if I don’t know a girl, or even if I know her but don’t necessarily like her, I’m all the time falling in love for brief, intense spurts.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy

“At the end of the day, we all need each other. Women need men, men need women, and nobody should be anyone’s sex slave.”
― Lauren Myracle, This Boy