Youth Quote by Jane Austen

“To her it seemed an inevitable thing as much a part of herself as her breathing; and yet it appeared transcendent of self, and…

— Radclyffe Hall

“She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being…

— Jane Austen Persuasion

“This was not the career she'd dreamed of as an ambitious seventeen-year-old, but now it was hard to remember ever feeling innocent and audacious…

— Liane Moriarty

“She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged”

— Virginia Woolf

“He is perhaps fifteen—not truly a young man yet, but certainly well on his way—and he walks with the energy and indifference of one…

— John Burley

“Yes, he was young—way too young, she was well aware of that unfortunate fact—but there was something to be said for youth, wasn’t there?…

— Tom Perrotta

“She was a grown up now, and she discovered that being a grown up was not quite what she had suspected it would be…

— Stephen King

“She felt herself age suddenly, but also knew what she now desired: to reconcile and grow old in peace, and have the wit to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“...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

“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had…

— Robin McKinley

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“She had not been much to look at in her youth, and she knew well that only courage is required for an adventure.”

— Leigh Bardugo