Old enough Quote by Alexander Chee

“A girl of sixteen had a complexion like a rose, and she put on rouge.”

— Stendhal

“A girl can stand just so much virtue.”

— Loraine Despres

“She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty…

— George Eliot

“It is the pretty face which creates sympathy in the hearts of men, those wicked rogues. A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her…

— Émile Zola

“She was a whore all the way through – and that was her virtue!”

— Henry Miller

“The lines in the corners of her eyes spoke of years of wisdom, as a tree with the number of rings increasing with each…

— F.C. Malby

“ In the end , she said, a little bitterly, facing him in warm perfumed bathwater one evening, despite wealth, despite wisdom, despite contacts…

— Richard K. Morgan

“She emanated that aura of grandeur that replaces sexual allure in the successful older woman.”

— Robert Galbraith

“I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening…

— Graham Greene

“Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies.”

— Lauren Willig

“From then on I had her in my memory with so much clarity that I could do what I wanted with her. I changed…

— Gabriel García Márquez