Writers Quote by John Irving

“I don't know what any of this means, but I know that when I thought you were gone, I couldn't breathe. It felt like…

— Myra McEntire

“At seventeen, I knew: my entire childhood had been just a prelude to this girl. I had never felt anything like it, and still…

— William Landay

“All will be well. Seventeen years later, I knew her meaning. You will find the courage to walk through whatever life gives you.”

— Christina Haag

“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 wishes she was old. She'd swap her life to be in a life that was nearly over, so long as she didn't have…

— Jenny Downham

“There's always this build-up to your eighteenth, and when it finally comes around you realize it's just the day after you were seventeen.”

— Lola Jaye

“In college, twenty-nine had seemed impossibly old. By now, she'd thought, she'd be married and have kids. But as each year went by, she…

— Jennifer Close

“She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and…

— Lisa Genova

“I’d already been an orphan, a wife, and a mother. Now I was a widow. I was only three months past my sixteenth birthday.…

— Donna Mabry

“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

“And how old are you, Miss Beckett?” “Seventeen.” “What!” There is no way she’s seventeen. I inspect her face, studying it intently, but don’t…

— Georgia Cates