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“Once upon a time there was an eighteen-year-old girl who dragged her butt out of bed and hauled it all the way to school…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“All the nervousness she’d been feeling about skipping to fourth grade suddenly burbled up inside her.”

— Jacqueline Davies

“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

“I wasn't a stranger to dealing with thirty-plus-year-old adolescents”

— Terri Anne Browning

“I was a normal eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting.”

— Julian Barnes

“Seventh grade. Eleven years old. A bookworm-misfit with long black braids, childish white socks, pointy pink glasses, and no courage for flirting. It's doesn't…

— Margarita Engle

“My mother started school when she was six and stopped the same term. She was unusual in the village, as she had a father…

— Malala Yousafzai

“The child in the middle of the room was glaring at him, for child she was, no matter what her advanced years. She was…

— Anne Stuart

“And yet often when I was out in the park or the woods, say, with my own little girls, I'd seen something and think…

— John E. Douglas

“I taught the older grades—five through eight. They required my full attention and kept my mind busy.”

— Vannetta Chapman

“Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then sitting in…

— Robert Conquest

“She was right: school was lonely. The eighteen and nineteen year olds didn't socialize with the younger kids, and though there were plenty of…

— Donna Tartt