Loss of innocence Quote by Sheri Holman

“We'd been twelve years old together. We'd shared the convictions that only twelve year olds can share, that love is simple and powerful and…

— Emily Horner

“Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer from it that increases.”

— Francoise Sagan

“And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be.”

— Jane Yolen

Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt,…

— Jennifer Crusie

“When you’re young, sex doesn’t mean as much, it isn’t sacred. Children make the best prostitutes because they’re th emost perfunctory about the whole…

— Heather O'Neill

“I was only twelve. But I knew how much I loved her. It was that love that comes before all significance of body and…

— Ray Bradbury

“Young girls think they know what their hearts desire, what they want the most. When really, we know nothing of love, devotion and utter…

— Alexia Purdy

Speaking with many young people, they act like their virginity is something you have to turn the page very quickly on. "It's done."

— Francois Ozon

“There is nothing like young love. It comes at a time before the heart knows to protect itself, when everything important is raw and…

— Alessandra Torre

Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.

— William Faulkner

“She began to understand why lovers talk baby talk to one another. There was no other socially acceptable circumstance in which the children inside…

— Carl Sagan

“...love at thirteen is nothing like love at eighteen.”

— Judy Blume