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“It was almost as if she was still the bewildred girl of fourteen who wasn't ready to be an adult.”

— Deborah Rodriguez

“She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a…

— George Orwell

“Still, he could see by the way she carried herself that she'd truly come of age and was at peace with the world. That…

— Steven A. McKay

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even…

— Han Kang

“All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed,…

— Michelle de Kretser

“...with the nonchalance that came from the belief of youth that nothing could go wrong, and whatever could already had.”

— Kiran Manral

“... She might have thought that it was the case, that all things worked out in the end, and that the world was a…

— Emma Straub

“I reckon it was always going to happen, one way or another. She wasn't made right for this world. She'd been running away from…

— Tana French

“Even then, only a child, she knew she had to pretend to be someone else -- for her parents, for their customers, for everyone…

— Leslie Parry

“She escaped from the schools when she turned eighteen. And she went on to be a Doctor, because the only way to fight what…

— Leah Bobet

“She had believed that because someone needed saving they were savable.”

— Anne Ursu

“She protected herself by making herself believe no-one else could ever really understand her.”

— Jerzy Kosiński