“I love you, Tess McGee. I don’t do big funny or heartfelt speeches in front of people at birthday parties, but I’m excellent in private alcoves in beer gardens.” He paused. “Okay, that sounded really bad, what I mean is …”
I kissed him into silence. I pressed my forehead against his with a sigh. “I love you, too, Toby. In fact, that’s what I was going to tell you before we walked into the beer garden. Right before the really bad singing started.”
Toby chuckled. He let out a sigh of relief. “Ready to reminisce?”
I whispered my final word before he closed the distance.
“Always.”
Source: The Boys of Summer
“She dressed in bohemian clothes, penned novels, panted, and yearned to roam forgotten corners of the world. She was habitually defiant and fearless, and when she felt controlled, as she often did, she could be irresistibly willfull. Mostly, she was bored silly by the vanilla sort boys who trailed her around, and by the stodgy set in Miami Beach.”
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
“What a surprise. That boy doesn't have the sense God gave a cactus.”
Source: Hemlock
“You wouldn't have to wash," said Brian, whose parents forced him to wash a great deal more than he thought could possibly be healthy. Not that it did any good. There was something basically ground in about Brian.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“These boys talk more than a pack of
women.”
Source: Rock Chick Revenge
“Did you ever think about boys?' I say, staring up into the dark.
'There wasn't room,' she whispers, and her voice is unbelievably sad. 'At first, after Connor, I was just waiting. I was going to get a new boyfriend soon- as soon as I was prettier or better, more perfect. But after a while there was no room for anything else. If I though about kissing or sex, I just started feeling ugly, too awful for anything good.”
Source: Paper Valentine
“A 'T' for Tess, a 'T' for Toby.”
Source: The Boys of Summer
“I thought guys were complicated. Maybe they are. But maybe they're easy and it's really me who's complicated.”
Source: Fat Cat
“Tidak ada yang jagoan di bumi ini, sekalipun dia seorang Bruce Lee atau Old Shatterhand. Lelaki memang harus keras, tapi bukan berarti kekerasan. Keras dalam arti menghadapi hidup dan menggeluti hidup yang serba susah ini. Lelaki memang harus begitu.”
Source: Balada Si Roy 1: Joe
“Tess, there isn't a drunken, screaming netballer in the world that would have made me not want to ... continue.”
Source: The Boys of Summer