#boy

I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings? and (2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#love

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand. ↗

— Samuel R. Delany

#love

~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults. ~Is he? ~All boys are. ~More than girls? ~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#girls #love #relationships #romance #love

My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#ex-boyfriends #love #relationships #stoicism #love

Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once ↗

— Ali Smith

#boy #girl #love #smith #love

(She) got herself a real boyfriend and she was just crazy about him. Not jack rabbit naked and coyote howling crazy, but sugar 'n' butter, soft 'n' sweet crazy. ↗

— Jackson Burnett

#crazy-in-love #jackson-burnett #love #relationships #the-past-never-ends

[T]he pressure to become muscular begins even earlier, as evidenced by the extreme bulking up of male action figures. These popular toys, including G.I.Joe and Star Wars characters, have increased in muscle size every decade since the 1960s; such subtleties can begin to exert size pressure on boys at a young age. ↗

— Susan Morris Shaffer

#boys-self-image #muscles #age

I've been asking around to find out what girls are into," Eugene tells me, really pleased with himself. "So I'm gonna get a spray tan and make red-velvet cupcakes. ↗

— Flynn Meaney

#boys-and-girls #cupcakes #romance #teenage-love #teenagers

Psychics. I love to prove you wrong. ↗

— Jim Pascoe

#hellboy #love

She'd thought love was painful and agonizing and all about not good enough. But it was about fitting so well with someone that everything felt bright and crisp and right. ↗

— Hailey Abbott

#hailey-abbott #love #love