- “Well, it’s for men who got big ol’ balls.”
The men here in the green barn were rough-and-tumble types, would-be cowboys and brawny bikers, men who looked like they struggled to come in to work sober every day.
- “You’re a grown man,” Avery said. “Take responsibility for your choices
“You let those black guys tell you what to do, you let some liberals tell you to call them African-Americans, you let your coaches, those scouts for the Orioles, your priest, you let everyone tell you what to do. You’re a grown man,” Avery said. “Take responsibility for your choices.”
- A man can’t ask for what he wants, he gotta earn it.
It’d look like he was demanding sex without an offer of marriage. Wojo wanted that very badly, which was why he don’t wanna ask for it. A man can’t ask for what he wants, he gotta earn it.
- A man oughta choose his own way
“Don’t let ya woman control you. She ain’t even ya woman, Smooches. You gettin’ distracted by potential skirt.”
- A man rises hisself to the situation at hand.
The one soldier who couldn’t quite live up to expectations was Samovich, who was skinny as a toothpick and sloppy as a bear. He couldn’t never do enough push-ups or clean his rifle proper-like or keep his bunk in good order. Whole dang unit got in a bad row of stumps again and again for ...
- A man should save up his seed for the holiness of matrimonial passion.
A man should save up his seed for the holiness of matrimonial passion. He really ought to start going to church, to prove he’s not a degenerate, but also because his ex could try to get him in legal trouble and a history of going to church would look good in court. Plus Dino’s mother ...
- A man shouldn’t be a virgin on his wedding day
Mr. Gregarian wanted Simon to go to church and to learn that pre-marital sex was wrong, and he wanted Simon to believe in all that stuff. But he wanted Simon to fuck a broad.
- a man who get rammed is a lesser man, a bitch, a puttana
I don’t mess wit’ weak-sauce girls who don’t do anal, y’know, I ain’t no pussy, swear to God. I mean, I fuck pussy, I ain’t too good fo’ some pussy. But sometimes a real man need ass, ya dig?
- A man’s gotta have composure
Vietnam was like a stencil in his mind, inscribing itself upon a’ry sensation that sat still long ’nuff.
- A nigga should fuck a ugly bitch sometimes. That’s what it means to keep it real.
“You done piss me off! And that’s why I is makin’ you go through with it,” Thumper said. That part weren’t true, he was always gonna make Rico do it. A nigga should fuck a ugly bitch sometimes. That’s what it means to keep it real. Niggas don’t explain, you gotsta figger it out.
- A peremptory conception of so-called manhood
T’was Buck’s turn to snort like a jaded pony and make a masturbatory hand gesture.
- A real man don’t need to ramp up
acob and Ransom had never disputed that because they didn’t want to admit they were scared to do anything more than jack off next to each other and both were sort of still virgins. Neither would admit that to each other or to Cooter.
- Alyssa made him feel like he had a life ahead of him.
Back then, before all that went down, he was convinced Alyssa was who he should have been with all along.
- Authority was a double-edged sword
If word got out that nobody was protecting this beach, they would all come do and do the same thing. This area’d be crawling with gropers and rapists. None of the women’d be safe.
- Back before, ain’t no nigga button up a shirt. Not a proper nigga anyway.
Carson wore a nice shirt he buttoned up like a white man. Or maybe niggas did that now, shit’s bullshit.
- Big Eddie’s shoulders were soaked in sweat and splattered in grease
American barbecue tasted wrong if cooked by a clean man or any kind of woman.
- Can’t take action when you’s bothered up hot, bawling like a waterfall.
A man’s gotta keep his nose up, no matter what. Women cry and go limp when they get in a bad situation. A man’s gotta take action. Can’t take action when you’s bothered up hot, bawling like a waterfall.
- Commitment
Women do that, they eat quick if they’re gonna dump you so they can leave right away if things get awkward. She did kiss him goodbye, but sometimes women do that, they do kiss a fellah after dumping him. Wojo done misread the signals on that before.
- constituates
A wife constituates half the puzzle men is commanded to complete.
- Craving sin was just as much a sin as committing it
He’d be able to afford a proper wedding and a home on a farm, and he could build a life with her, a godly life.
- Curly ain’t like Pat because he wasn’t a “man’s man”.
Pat knew what the problem was too. Curly ain’t like Pat because he wasn’t a “man’s man”. He ain’t spit or smoke or drink whiskey. He ain’t talk about whores and sluts all the time. He ain’t have an enormous cock, and he was embarrassed to show it off. He wasn’t anybody’s idea of a ...
- Dimples cute as a baby otter
omen expect a nigga to make ‘em happy, so if a nigga is glum, she gonna think he won’t ever make her happy.
- each one is a papaya of infinite sweetness
“We have, eh, the, eh… infinite manhood.”
- Flavius had never believed in that until this moment, when he suddenly felt like a real man
Many Romans claimed that bending a man over brought you his strength and bravery; that was the reason many of them were so keen to do it to the conquered armies. But Flavius had never believed in that until this moment, when he suddenly felt like a real man instead of a girlish weakling.
- Getting jerked off by a man was better than a woman, Perico often thought but never said out loud
Perico was scrupulously polite to his clients, but when he let a man jerk him off, he didn’t do it nicely — that was demanded by his machismo.
- Girls piss too.
“Oh, but girls piss too. Pussy does piss I know dat, suh. But they’s cleaner. That’s the diff’rence. Tastes like piss, yessuh. I know dat.”
- He gotsta get a grip on hisself, and a man gotsta do that alone.
The world seemed right before the war, right in a way he couldn’t perceive then or articulate now. Expectations done broke, he thought. Goose went to war, he pulled the appropriate trigger at appropriate times, he followed orders mostly, he came back alive, he got money, he gave it to a woman to spend. He ...
- He kept one hand covering his crotch
The gym bros were a bunch of macho chads with chins and shoulders and big swinging penises that flopped between their legs like sausages too thick for their casings. His just sort of poked out like an escaping worm. He felt shriveled.
- He knew he was gonna look like a spoilsport, but he don’t care, Wojo was raised proper.
“You shouldn’t talk about women like that,” Wojo said. He knew he was gonna look like a spoilsport, but he don’t care, Wojo was raised proper. He’s a Christian. “It’s disrespec’ful.”
- He was looking at it like he always wanted one. Prolly got a wife who don’t like motorcycles. Women mostly don’t, in Goose’s experience.
After a minute or two of recompositioning hisself, Goose reckoned Mister Jones was serious about liking the motorcycle. He was looking at it like he always wanted one. Prolly got a wife who don’t like motorcycles. Women mostly don’t, in Goose’s experience.
- His mother would be scandalized if she knew he jacked off even alone
his father resolutely believed men should do whatever it took to avoid going “on the dole”, so he forgave any man for being motivated by poverty to do something immoral
- His pa was in prison for shooting a cop on a jet-ski, but Cody still idolized him
He wished he had struggled to get hard
- I ain’t bullyin’ no one. You a grown man. Kinda.
You spend all day telling them how to spend their life just so you can go home to what I’m guessing is a sad little apartment all by yourself, microwave a sad little TV dinner, lift your little weights like a fucking convict. Hey, how much furniture do you have that isn’t a bench press?
- I don’wanna say what it taste like, cuz you’re a girl.
He paused before blurting out, “They got flavored popcorn too. But don’t get the green… uh… matchoo. Gross. Tastes like… well, I don’wanna say what it taste like, cuz you’re a girl.” He blushed and looked down, then bit his lip and corrected himself. “Woman.”
- I fuck girls any way they want
“I only ram males one way, dig? I fuck girls any way they want — nice, slow, hard, fast, I don’t care. I’ll do anything to get my dick wet in some lady-pussy. But I only ram males if they don’t mind gettin’ nasty. That describe you?”
- If you a man, you gotta protect yaself
“If you a man, you gotta protect yaself. If you can’t, you either pay someone else to or you ain’t gonna be protected,” he said. “Ain’t nothin’ wrong wit’ payin’ for protection.”
- In his culture, men were either hombres who rammed or pasivos who got rammed
He said that the pasivo has to be on his back, with his legs in the air, both because that was similar to a position you might fuck a woman in and because it meant he couldn’t run away.
- It makes a black man look handsomer, makes a white man look weaker
Lamont drank the frou-frou.
- Jacking off is only okay if you got hard accidentally and needed to do it to “relieve an erection”
Bill was all about erections — he said a man shouldn’t be guided by lust, and jacking off too much was being guided by lust.
- Kareem should just get tougher, if his bootyhole hurts too bad
A real man handled his shit and ain’t avoid a fight from a bigger man, Buck do say. He knew that was easy for him to say, as he was the bigger man in every interaction. But still, a man shouldn’t run.
- Lace-fried fluff
Must everything be castrated down to parasitic orchids, soft edges and understated wallpaper?
- Like making out under an unfinished statue
Wojo don’t mind a gold-digger. So long as she loves him, she can spend all the money, he don’t care. Just give him an allowance to buy lunch every day at work. Couplea shirts at Christmas. That’s all he needs.
- Men shouldn’t behave that way
Men shouldn’t behave that way, he thought, and for men in his own field, sumo, it was entirely unacceptable.
- Men’s Fitness
“You’re not going to be the hero of any action movie. Maybe a villain’s henchman. Maybe.”
- Mr. Gregarian said that was how he wanted his boys raised
Mr. Gregarian only wanted his daughter Miriam to live up to the expectations of Armenian Orthodox Christianity. He wanted his sons to pretend to.
- Not in a racist way. Just, girls give black guys rimjobs more than white guys.
“There’s so much I don’t know about girls. It’s a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, and smelling of fish tacos.”
- Old ladies is oown this Earth to dis’pprove
“Her mama ain’t nevuh gunna like nuffin’. That’s how women is, dummy. Old ladies is oown this Earth to dis’pprove.”
- Old niggas don’t get the boot!
The bus was full, filled to the brim. Filled fulla seniors! Seniors for Christ! Old ladies mostly, couple fellahs keeping it real, you know an old nigga get plenty of dusty snatch, cuz there ain’t many of ’em. Root-a-toot-hoot! Old niggas don’t get the boot!
- On the code of the good man
A good man’s code was ’bout defending women ‘gainst the fellers who ain’t got the good man’s code. Sometimes even the men who talked like they respected women was the ones who least respect ’em.
- On the downlow
Raython’s father had a lot of similar rules, different things that made someone a real man or not.
- On uncrustables
It’s the single limpest-dick thing to ever exist.
- One craves the vitality of man
It is that fact that feels raw and acute in women of a certain age.
- Only washed-up old men was former anythings.
He just might got love in his heart for her. He wanna go the whole way right now, tell her he loves her, propose to her, marry her, have a buncha kids with her. If there was a button he could press to make all that happen, he’d do it in an instant! Bet!But there ...
- Rocky could turn the wives out on their backs
A man who couldn’t pay his debt ain’t enough of a man to defend his wife either.
Rocky wasn’t like that. He was no rapist.
- She can’t cry forever, can she?
He hoped he didn’t look like a creep. He wasn’t flirting with her, he really wasn’t. Some girls assume anyone who looks at them is flirting. Would she like it or dislike it
- She was a high-yellow female with wide hips and tits you can believe in, a pussy that goes on and on and legs that connect her feet to a delicious ass.
She stood like a shapely traffic cone in the doorway to one the apartments on the second floor of Brentwood. It was a trash-high shithole, and she shimmied in her slinky dress like she was unaware of the trashy environs when she peeped her eyes upon his handsomeness Slim Jay.
- She was hot as a frying pan!
“I already had some leave, two weeks ago. And I met this girl. She was beautiful, you wouldn’t even believe it, she looked like, bam!”
- She won’t get less played-out over time
A man shouldn’t tear up over a female, not even his daughter. What kinda bullshit is that?
- So it was up to him to slow his men down.
Alphas tried to be slow and gentle with women because women demanded it, and men (sometimes) wanted a long-term relationship with them.
- Sometimes a man just wanted to be talked into something, so he could feel like he didn’t want to do it.
he wouldn’t be the first alpha thug who told Kwan he’d never let a man swing on his dick but then allowed Kwan to easily seduce him time and time again. Sometimes a man just wanted to be talked into something, so he could feel like he didn’t want to do it.
- T’is on the nearest man to handle reality.
For sure all the parkbodies thunk he shoulda been here, strong enough to control his household like a man, he shoulda been watching over Ellen, providing for her so she don’t gotta sling her cat for horse.
- Tejón came out of the bathroom on his cell phone, trying to convince his girlfriend to give him permission to fuck a whore
Tejón wanted a reason cheating didn’t count. Women want a man who wants to prove how expansive his definition of cheating is as proof of his devotion to her.
- That was why Rob liked him and women did not.
Mustafa was the kind of alpha who saw no need to talk to his bitch. That was why Rob liked him and women did not.
- That’s for girls and pansies, and I don’t see tits or petals on you.
If you want something, you address me like a man, as sir, and you plan your words before you open ya mouth. None of this uh or ah business. That’s for girls and pansies, and I don’t see tits or petals on you.”
- The bartender was an old lady, not even a proper bartender neither
A man shouldn’t drink in a place with a cartoon mascot, Tyrell thought, eyeing the big-eyed giraffe on the wall.
- The fa’afinafe
“Sort of. I was in school, back in Apia. She wasn’t, she was older,” Poahi said. He paused as though there was more to the story that he wasn’t saying.
- The good Lord above wants you to take a risk.
Men must risk, so that women don’t have to.
- The world is like a cookie in that they both crumbles
The tall one was like Serbian or some shit. Not a proper honky in Steel’s notions.
- The worst thing a man can do to a woman is respond to her provocations
That was the whole point of filling a cantina with beautiful women in skimpy clothes, after all. They were here to tantalize and tease. Ernie was a deadbeat not because he stared but because he did not hide it. The worst thing a man can do to a woman is respond to her provocations.
- they’d still want to cuddle and talk about feelings afterwards.
Cuddling did sound appealing, but once the orgasmic afterglow wore off in a few minutes, he’d be tired of it and their bodies would be hot and sticky.
- This Army is not in the business of giving a gun and a uniform to any piece of shit capable of doing a couple push-ups, you little pissant!
“You had better do the best job possible! This Army is not in the business of giving a gun and a uniform to any piece of shit capable of doing a couple push-ups, you little pissant! This Army gives guns and uniforms to men, who can do things right the first time, men who can ...
- Trivia ante momentum
Trivia ante momentum is the motto of womanhood, after all, and garden parties were the height of feminimity.
- Warriors need a woman to come home to
Koa was big and tough, brimming with machismo and power, all traits that women here liked — but he was too much of all those things. He was so big he’d hurt any woman he was with, and he was too crude to be seductive or charming. But he was exactly the kind of man ...
- What happened to the days when college boys lifted weights?
It looked like a Nickelodeon show had exploded, with perky young bodies and skinny arms everywhere, haircuts more complex than any man had a right to.
- what was the point of being a man if you can’t keep your little lady from hooking it?
And he felt bad that he felt good about leaving. He gotsta skedaddle while the heat was on. And he gotsta go less he lose control of his fists again. That boy ain’t a wall, and the lady ain’t a soldier.
- What’s good for the gander is good for the goose.
Who knows the ways of women? Not Rob. In any case, Clement had a wife who loved him and a mistress who loved him and actually a couple of spurned lovers who still loved him too. Mystifying but true. Jessica — that’s the wife — knew about the mistresses. Rob had encouraged her to sleep ...
- Without men, women holds each other down like a bucket of frogs.
A man falls apart like a jigsaw puzzle; a woman falls apart like shattered glass. Without women, men holds each other together like log cabins. Without men, women holds each other down like a bucket of frogs.
- Wojo thought women should be princesses, not whores. No, queens!
Prostitutes were merely a warm orifice for a man to use and abuse, that manhood required utilization and hierarchy to embody itself lest its precariousness lead to subordination and that empathy for fallen women marked a man as weak and vincible.
- Women are into werewolves?
“I have this one series — have you ever heard of The Wolfen Wild? That’s me. By J.P. Loggerhead.”Raleigh shook his head. “What kinda book is that?”“It’s a shifter thing. Werewolves. Women dig werewolves.”“What? Women are into werewolves?”“Yeah.”“Then why do they always bitch that I’m too hairy?!” Raleigh lifted his arms and grunted. That bared ...
- Women don’t know how to value a hairy, sweaty ballsac.
But it was true, no girl had ever licked his balls for more than a few seconds because they were too big, too heavy, too low-hanging, and too hairy. They were just plain too much.
Those traits were exactly why Avery loved them. Women don’t know how to value a hairy, sweaty ballsac.
- women done spent the last thirty-four years coming up with innovative and unattractive things to do to they eyebrows
The jawn was bumping. It was nice that they ain’t gotta walk nowhere, just go down the stairs and boop, there they was, in Lipsweet, surrounded by girls in tight things that showed off they other things. They got asses too!Girls got nice asses now! Asses got better in the thirty-four years Thumper was in ...
- You got the ugliest dingdong in the world
That would not be a problem for Avery. He loved a big cock, and he had never seen an ugly one.
- you gotta keep earnin’ it e’ry day
Tyrell scoffed. “Yeah. Guys don’t even know, you don’t own a pussy, y’know, ya gotta earn it, you gotta keep earnin’ it e’ry day. Man, white men gotta have money, ya know, but they don’t realize they females is still out fuckin’ wit’ nigga dick, ya feel me?”
- You shouldn’t be makin’ some other man feel good. That ain’t how a real man should act.”
I just don’t see how this ain’t humiliatin’ for ya
- Young men are drowning in a male-strum of toxic cities
He done share prison cells with lotta handsome young things like Rico, with tasteful muscles and cute tattoos and a tight ass you could bounce a kitten off of.
- Youthful men froth forth
Young ladies immanently shrink from the freedom of the future, while youthful men froth forth with the vigors of the eternal now, yet elder women tendrilously transcend their present and old men are bound by their pasts.
