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“She was seventy-three, a widow, came in every night looking like the Queen, drank her body weight in gin and left looking like an…

— Emily Maguire

“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

Oh, that,' said Ginny, giggling. 'Well-Percy's got a girlfriend.' Fred dropped a stack of books on George's head. 'What?' 'It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope…

— Anonymous

“Too young to explain in words, the girl's face was old enough to show the loss that was that name.”

— Anthony Marra

“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

“She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying "Young Lady" after every sentence.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the…

— Meredith Schorr

“Ginny Cupper took me in her car out to the spread fields of Indiana. Parking near the edge of woods and walking out into…

— J.P. Donleavy

“She was a woman now and youth was gone.”

— Margaret Mitchell

“She looked at the kids, who did not see [them] because they were past the age of twenty-five...”

— Stephen King

“That woman and her thug butler needed to be put behind bars; Claire didn’t care how old they were.”

— J.R. Ward

“If only Geprgie could figure out how to call herself in the past, she'd tell herself how young and lovely she was.”

— Rainbow Rowell