A Boys Own Story Quotes

#1. That's because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole," said one of the other boys. "C.S. Lewis never went through any doors. He didn't know how it worked. He wanted to tell a story, and he'd probably heard about kids like us, and he made shit up.

Seanan McGuire

#2. It's important for little girls to know not every story has to be a love story and for boys to know that soldiers aren't the only ones to triumph in war.

Guillermo Del Toro

#3. It was Ruby's favorite kind of story: where the boys lost and the girls won and got a souvenir in the bargain.

Nova Ren Suma

#4. This is the story of a girl who fooled a thousand boys, a boy who fooled an entire country, a partnership that would change the fate of realms, and a power to challenge the greatest tyrant the world had ever known. Expect magic.

Sherry Thomas

#5. This is a story of several killings, of boys who meant nothing to a world still spinning,

Marlon James

#6. You said we're in Neverland! As in the story? As in Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys and Peter Pan?

Lisa Maxwell

#7. If there was a story about boys playing punk I don't think I would've made it, because it would just be the same, it wouldn't be interesting enough.

Lukas Moodysson

#8. It's getting a little chilly in here! Why don't we sit by the fireplace and I'll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!

Angel Ramon Medina

#9. I had been avoiding the D-word. But the kids cut right to it. My boys are well aware of death. My twins finish every story they make up with the same phrase: "Then everyone died. The end.

A. J. Jacobs

#10. It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn't be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.

S.E. Hinton

#11. I think lots of boys sat down with 'The Three Musketeers' and felt it was a really long book, but then discovered that it's a really gripping swashbuckling story.

Nick Harkaway

#12. If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

Rod Stewart

#13. Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

Suzanne Collins

#14. There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?

Auberon Waugh

#15. Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all?

Tina Brown