Famous Quote by Cordwainer Smith

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real…

— Jane Austen

“She can’t stand the sight of me, Helen. The one girl, the only girl who’s ever really shook me up—and I horrify her.”

— Josephine Angelini

“She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.”

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“Helen had known that it would be a one-night stand, but she wanted her virginity finished with...”

— Kathryn Morgan Parry

“And you don’t know this, but that girl? The one left outside of that school alone? She’s sitting there writing about you. You have…

— J.M. Darhower

“. . . the romantic teenager buried deep inside her was weeping at the perversion of her love story. There was no hero in…

— Anna Zaires

“Don't you see, Helen? There would be no life for me now without you in it." He covered her hand with his own, bringing…

— Michelle Zink

“In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.”

— Amy Sedaris

“Homer lets us each make our own Helen; and so she is immortal.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human…

— Karen White

“Perhaps it was Helen's way of falling in love--a curious way to Margaret, whose agony and whose contempt of Henry were yet imprinted with…

— E.M. Forster

“That's the thing about people you loved. They disappeared on you. I didn't know much at the ripe old age of fifteen and a…

— Jerry Stahl