Quote by Gabrielle Zevin

“She was so young that love was still a game to her. . . . She was being neither fair nor clever, but Babette…

— Hans Christian Andersen

“He is still, at times, astonished by her. She may be the most intelligent woman in England, he thinks. Her books may be read…

— Michael Cunningham

“...she immediately became the person they believed her to be: a peculiar, impatient girl, attractive enough yet too old and odd for the village…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She appeared to be ageless the type that would continue, unchanging, until she was an old woman when she would suddenly become senile and…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“For once he looked at her as if he saw her – an older woman unafraid of blustering men, too assured to play at…

— Susan Rowland

“shows the destructive forces that affect young women. As a girl, Ophelia is happy and free, but with adolescence she loses herself. When she…

— Mary Pipher

“Maybe I got sick of accusations, sick of being Polonius's daughter, and Laertes's sister, and Hamlet's girlfriend. Maybe I wanted, for a short while,…

— Lisa Mantchev

“Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an…

— Tove Jansson

“He'd kept his figure despite being past his first youth. Pretty good for nearly forty. Who was she fooling? She knew quite well that…

— Miranda Neville

“He felt a bit like Romeo to her Juliet, minus the feuding families and poison. And with pigeons.”

— Julia Quinn

“But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their…

— Jane Austen

“Agatha’s older than I was when I was her age.”

— Jarod Kintz