Quote by Eleanor H. Porter

“...only- we aren't always willing to make the exchange. We are apt to still cling to- our skeletons.”

— Eleanor H. Porter

“Whether I felt strong and courageous or not, I would now have to be for my baby boy.”

— Abeba Habtu

“Human males are fascinating creatures. No matter how old they get, the little boy never goes away. ”

— Barbara Bretton

“I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don’t civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy. And it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on…

— Alan Bradley

“My little boy was no more and even though he'd come home for vacations, our relationship would never be quite the same. Just as…

— Sallyann Murphey

“Sometimes we'd sit on that bench for hours, talking about nothing much and blowing smoke rings into the air, and we'd see them teetering…

— Máire T. Robinson

“In all the photos I see the boy I once knew and the man he became, a flawed but decent man whom I grew…

— Elizabeth Stone

“I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out at first,…

— Rabih Alameddine

“For me, reading that scene never fails to bring on a brief, scalding instant of recognition in recalling exactly what it was like to…

— Wendy McClure

“He’s pale, bald, and bony. He looks like a skeleton. And that, my friend, is precisely why I keep him in my closet.”

— Jarod Kintz