Girl Quote by Beverly Cleary

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

— Tom Petty

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

— Marguerite Duras

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

— Kate Winslet

She wanted to be irresponsible, she wanted to be looked after, to be told that she didn't have to worry about a thing and…

— Cecelia Ahern

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

— George Orwell

This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired,…

— Kim Edwards

That girl was real slow

— Anonymous

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

— Roger Penrose

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

— Sarah Addison Allen

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“She stopped in the middle of the icy garden. It was precisely because she had found everything so stupid that she had ended up…

— Paulo Coelho

He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost…

— Graham Greene