Different for Boys Quotes

“You know, the way teenage guys talk about sex, you'd think all of us were having it all the time, nonstop.”
― Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

“Sometimes silence is real loud, louder than anything.”
― Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

“I'd heard there were some gay girls in senior year who were dating each other right out in the open. But not any boys. Its different for boys. I mean, everybody knows somebody gay - duh, it's not 1980 or something - but not at school. At school, it was a secret, and you were on your own.”
― Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

“Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does.”
― Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

“And for a second, for a minute, forever, every nerve in my body is right there, right at the point where we're touching.
And boom, I think.
That's it.”
― Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

“We can't kiss.
Because that would make us gay.”
― Patrick Ness, Different for Boys

“Because nothing I did with Charlie ever once felt like that kiss with Jack.”
― Patrick Ness, Different for Boys