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She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.

— Sarah Dessen

“She’d spent most of her twenties dreading becoming an adult, and all of her thirties waiting to feel like an adult. The day she’d…

— Lillianna Blake

She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far…

— Cecelia Ahern

“And our ages never bothered her from the very beginning. I was married, but that didn’t matter, either. She seemed to consider things like…

— Haruki Murakami

“She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. "You should go for younger women,"…

— Tana French

“I had affairs with a few girls of my own age, and they taught me that no girl, however intelligent and war-hearted, can possibly…

— Stephen Vizinczey

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

— Jane Austen

“I turned to see a young woman with bed hair, wearing a only a thin nightdress.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now. She was twenty-five and looked it, and so there as no longer any need…

— Margaret Mitchell

“In college, twenty-nine had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought, she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she…

— Jennifer Close

“She was at the age when she looked as much like an overgrown boy as a girl. And on that subject why was it…

— Carson McCullers

“Maybe when she'd been eighteen it was a quality she might have laughed at, but at twenty-eight, dependability had turned into something of an…

— Jill Mansell