This Boy
Lauren Myracle
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Wind in our hair, sun on our skin, school done for the day and stored safely on a shelf til tomorrow…damn, this being alive thing felt frickin awesome.”
“That’s why I love that kid. I can get a proper roasting from him and still be good friends.”
“Roby was honest in a kind way. If I was being stupid, he told me. But he also talked me up, telling me my fashion sense was dope and that I had good taste in music.”
“Roby thought he should get “dibs” on Natalia because he claimed her first, that’s what he was arguing. I’m not convinced it works that way. Natalia has dibs on herself, that’s what I think.”
“Paul, watching you hallucinate is boring as fuck,” Roby said. “If you want to chill, great. If you’re going to drink your stupid purple drank, I’m going to take off.” And he did. I kept drinking my stupid purple drank, and he left.”
“Natalia, Kahlia and Helen are always saying “Love you!” to each other. They say it at school, at parties, at each other’s houses. They hug all the frickin time, too. Guys, on the other hand, bump fists and every so often hug their moms.”
“I’ve been thinking back to when I was younger, before I had a clue about benzos or purple drank or even weed. I was so innocent. I wish I could go back and be that dumbshit kid again, naïve and full of hope.”
“It’s okay if you’re not exactly happy, I think. Maybe you’re on the way to being happy”
“In fifty years, we’ll be like those old men who spend hours at all-day breakfast diners. We’ll have big ears and tufting sprouts of nose hair, and we’ll guffaw at everything the other says. Heh-heh-heh, you know it, Roby. Pass the damn ham.”
“If you have a girlfriend—when you have a girlfriend—make sure you take care of her just like she takes care of you.”
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