Grown Quote by Clare Boylan

“Sizewise, she's always been just smaller than me. But I think of her and I feel like she's as big as the world.”

— Patrick Ness

“Growing up she had become used to allowing men the ability to curve themselves into question marks around her and hold her desperately as…

— R. YS Perez

“The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.”

— Zane Grey

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The males of her kind might grow large with age, but the females grew wise.”

— Hugh Howey

“Okay ladies...at this point of the story I have to stop and point out that size really does matter.”

— Jessica Ingro

“There’s greatness in smallness. Just look into the eyes of a child.”

— Dean Henryson

“Some girls are bigger than others.”

— Morrissey

“When I was young, I think so big; but when I grow up I think smaller.”

— Rangsey Heng (ផលព្រឹក្ស

“She was average height, more slender than curvy. And he realized with horror that he was attracted to her. A lot.”

— Miranda Liasson

“As she expanded the room grew smaller around her. (27)”

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“She was grossly overweight, though I could tell from her refined features that she may have been quite pretty in a younger, leaner life.”

— Patricia Cornwell