Spoke Quote by Pearl S. Buck

“Both boys stayed very quiet for a few minutes, neither one wanting to say anything he might regret.”

— John Boyne

“And the boy whose temper seemed tethered to the air itself…they didn’t know what to make of him.”

— Victoria Schwab

“Hardly anything remained of which he could speak aloud.”

— Peter Nadas

“He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence,…

— Nick Harkaway

“even then that without them, I was nothing. Not a son or a brother but just a boy—and”

— David Sedaris

“Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now…

— Carson McCullers

“what the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with…

— Paulo Coelho

“...But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I recall his somber eyes during that last, private conversation. His eyes and his words, far too wise for a boy of ten: only…

— Michelle Zink

“...there was a general murmuring, no real words, nothing that would get anyone into trouble if the piper turned nasty, but a muttering indicating,…

— Terry Pratchett

“Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of…

— Alice Hoffman

“People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with sheep who don’t say anything at all.”

— Paulo Coelho