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“Eleanor hated boys, and she would have liked to have whipped this one long and often. It was perhaps the yearning of a woman who had no children of her own.”

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Book:The Jesting of Arlington Stringham

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“You’re telling me you’re not worried about your daughter hanging around with six boys with dubious reputations? And dating one of them who looks at your daughter with…that look?” My brow creased. “What look?” “Oh, please,” Aunt M scoffed. “That look. And not to mention that smile. Hungry,” she growled the word, “and hot enough to make a nun’s panties spontaneously combust.”

Boys Nuns Hex Boys Aunts

Book:Drop Dead Demons

Source: Drop Dead Demons

“Mom made me watch this boring documentary where this kid my age - twelve, if it matters to you - is hand-scrubbing clothes against a block of wood for hours, which, ugh, brutal. And you wanna know how you determined the clothes were clean enough? When your arm fell off.”

Humor Boys Laundry

Book:It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit

Source: It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit

“Boys just stared at you as if you were a complicated dessert surrounded by unknown tableware.”

Sex Boys

Book:Catch the Rabbit

Source: Catch the Rabbit

“A small percentage of the weight of sins.” Jake explained. “That’s why they are so heavy.” Sin weighs heavily on a person, apparently.”

God Sin Boys Depression Training Christians Warriors Burdens Swords Demon Hunter

Book:Holy Bliss

Source: Holy Bliss

“Why would teenage boys go out on a boat in a storm?” Stacey wondered. “Well, now that I say it aloud, it kinda answers itself.”

Humor Funny Boys Childhood Adventure Coming Of Age Teenagers Boyhood Recklessness Teenage Boys

Book:The Trailwalker

Source: The Trailwalker

“Though there were no strong conventions, until the nineteenth century pink was certainly a very suitable color for boys.”

Boys Pink

Book:The Descent of Man

Source: The Descent of Man

“Why do boys totally suck? I'm starting to think it might be ingrained in them. Like, they're taught at a young age that they can be assholes because most women will let them get away with it.”

Boys

Book:Lock Every Door

Source: Lock Every Door

“Boys... I hope you all just die.”

Death Boys Manga

Book:A Girl on the Shore

Source: A Girl on the Shore

“As we examine the youth of today, we must realize that the negative behavior we see on the outside, is a result of a deeper need on the inside.”

Children Boys Youth Behavior Young Adult Needs And Wants Needs Of Others Bad Boys Bad Childhood

Author:Eric M. Watterson

“Wave after wave, Ralph followed the rise and fall until something of the remoteness of the sea numbed his brain. Then gradually the almost infinite size of this water forced itself oh his attention. This was the divider, the barrier. On the other side of the island, swathed at midday with mirage, defended by the shield of the quiet lagoon, one might dream of rescue; but here, faced by the brute obtuseness of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down, one was helpless, one was condemned, one was-”

Boys Ocean Survival Saved Crash Shipwreck Lagoon

Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

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