Boy Meets Girl Quotes

• Boy Meets Girl, So What?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Broken Heart, Girl, Boys

  Bertolt Brecht, Werner Hecht (1998). “Werke”

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• If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Boys, Doe

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• Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl.

  Jack Woodford

  Girl, Sex, Drinking

  Jack Woodford (2012). “The Autobiography of Jack Woodford”, p.299, askmar publishing

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• You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.

  David Gemmell

  Girl, Boys, Everyday

  "The Swords of Night and Day". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 14, 2004.

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• You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

  Terry Southern

  Girl, Boys, World

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• The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Girl, Boys, Ideas

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• What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature with claws.

  Susan Wiggs

  Girl, Falling In Love, Boys

  Susan Wiggs (2016). “Susan Wiggs The Calhoun Chronicles Books 4-5: Enchanted Afternoon\A Summer Affair”, p.61, MIRA

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• Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of the silent-era. What we were able to do together is to show all these major influences but make it into our own comedy. We've seen the stereotypical boy-meets-girl story a hundred thousand times…

  J. Robert Spencer

  Girl, Growing Up, Boys

  "J. Robert Spencer: Jersey Boy & Movie Man". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. November 13, 2007.

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• Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because now I am married. I tried to explain again that there are other things to write about besides boy meets girl, girl meets boy, boy breaks up with girl, girl is sad.

  Lucinda Williams

  Girl, Song, Believe

  "An Interview with Lucinda Williams". The Believer Magazine, Issue Ninety-One, believermag.com. July 1, 2012.

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• Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Girl, Mother, Revenge

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• Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl angst over which family they visit at Thanksgiving and which one in December and whether or not it's best to serve turkey or goose for the family feast. When first faced with the reality that the family you married into does things differently, the warmth of tradition can take on a chill.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Girl, Boys, Reality

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• Alexander and I sat together on a backyard swing. "This is like a dream come true," Alexander said as we gently swung back and forth. "We can finally just focus on us now. Continue the traditional 'Boy meets girl, girl falls for boy, boy turns out to be a vampire' story.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Girl, Dream, Fall

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