“Boys like obvious,” Phryne told her. “Men prefer subtle but boys only stop thinking about sex when they are thinking about food. Or football. The adolescent male is a strange and horrible creature unless, of course, one’s tastes run the same way.”

Kerry Greenwood (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer

Phryne Fisher, Book 14, Queen of the Flowers, ch. 15 [Phryne to Dot] (2004)
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