Growing up Quote by Keith Ablow

“Since thirteen, she’d been preparing. She wasn’t beautiful like these Bayhead Harbor girls, but it was surprising how men sometimes looked at her. More…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“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

“If she were human, I’d judge her to be in her mid-forties. That didn’t sit in a negative column with her, though, because she…

— Jeaniene Frost

“She was in his heart, in his very soul, and the love he felt for her was so much more than that of an…

— Carla Cassidy

“It was a boyish thing to do and it caught the hesitating girl in the depths of her heart, as the boy element in…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“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

“I imagine that she flushes, seeing him there, for she is at that age when even the most commonplace boys take on a sense…

— Kim Edwards

“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

“There was an aura about him that was staggering to her, making it difficult to think. It wasn't mere male heat and sensuality. It…

— Kresley Cole

“She’s the kind of girl a guy meets when he’s too young, and he fucks up because there’s too much living to do. But…

— Californication

“he'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.”

— George R.R. Martin

“She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at…

— Barbara Pym