Little Boy Quote by Terry Pratchett

“He is so poor that he could not keep a dog.”

— Longus

“He himself did not eat. I had been hungry, but sitting there now, at the table with the two of them, it felt as…

— Joyce Maynard

“He remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had - a dog, a stick, an…

— Bernard Malamud

“In fact, he couldn’t remember the last time he’d had anything to eat.”

— Christa Faust

“God, he thinks, he could be starving and she’d fill him up with one sweet look.”

— Austin Chant

“He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness.”

— Lionel Shriver

“I must think about something else for a while. But then I remember his warn arms and his big strong legs touching mine and…

— Nancy E. Turner

“Boys liked it when you were starving, like you had starved yourself for them.”

— Mary Miller

“Somehow I knew that puppies were meant to leave their mothers.”

— W. Bruce Cameron

“He could not comprehend what was happening to him, but it had to do with the casual cruelty of people who'd never missed a…

— Ben Fountain

“He’d had a dog once, in that way he’d had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting.”

— Anna Quindlen

“There's a bench, worn smooth by decades of widows and nannies; I sit, and wonder if he will, if he'll remember it was ours…

— Richard Kramer