#boys

Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he was a kid—because they pretend that’s what they are anyhow, grown-up men, and they do it for their entire lives. ↗

— Russell Banks

#men

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #men #men

The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn't only be dangerous. They would be irresistible. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#dangerous #dark #horror-romance #sex #sex-appeal

…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #louisa-may-alcott

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#bullies #school #schoolboys #bullying

Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #men

It seemed to me that Q. was talking about the nature of the midnight disease, which started as a simple feeling of disconnection from other people, an inability to "fit in" by no means unique to writers, a sense of envy and of unbridgeable distance like that felt by someone tossing on a restless pillow in a world full of sleepers. Very quickly, though, what happened with the midnight disease was that you began actually to crave this feeling of apartness, to cultivate and even flourish within it. You pushed yourself farther and farther and farther apart until one black day you woke to discover that you yourself had become the chief object of your own hostile gaze. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#nature

Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep your ears on offer if she wants to talk. But you can’t draw out the strangeness, Edgar. It’s not a poison. ↗

— Allyse Near

#relationships #romance #strangeness #relationship

Stay away from her." "Okay." "Keep your hands off her." "I'll try." He scowled at me. "I will," I said. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#adam-vader #boys-next-door #comedy #echols #endless-summer

Son," he said, "you monkeyed up. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#adam-vader #boys-next-door #comedy #echols #endless-summer