Big Boy Leaves Home Quotes

#1. If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

Hilaire Belloc

#2. A film closed over the past as she spoke, a barrier as brittle and fragile as ice forming. It would grow and strengthen. It would become impenetrable, opaque.

Kim Edwards

#3. To live the first five years of your life feeling that you are valuable is a wonderful thing and, if you don't have it, then you spend the rest of your life trying to find it. I think my mother realised this and tried to compensate for my father's extreme preoccupation with himself.

Rick Stein

#4. Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

Eric Clapton

#5. I want to open myself up, I want to experience other dimensions, I don't want to be bound by the rules of this world. Does that make me a freak?

Curtis Sittenfeld

#6. Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale.

Marie Rutkoski