Eighteen Quote by Emma Straub

“This woman was eighteen years old. With eyes as old as stones.”

— Herbjørg Wassmo

“I was eighteen and already tired.”

— Belinda Kelderhouse

“And a sad realization drifted through my head, something to do with how young she was, how good she looked in any light, how…

— Anne Rice

“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 was eighty-five, and her sleep was as thin as her skin.”

— Stephen King

“And I'd noticed her eyes, the lightest blue, and alive, moving here and there and then staring straight on. And now there's darkness under…

— Adam Berlin

“She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was…

— Margaret Atwood

“This time he couldn’t keep himself from staring. From thinking about what those lips would feel like. Taste like. Her mouth was appallingly sinful…

— Mimi Matthews

“When the light came, it would fall just so, across his pillow. She’d see his sleeping face in the light: the jackstraw hair, the…

— Diana Gabaldon

“I don’t sleep, have not slept in sixteen years—”

— Lawrence Block

“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

“How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly.”

— Gregory Maguire