Character-insight Quote by Susan Rowland

“Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind…

— Keith Ablow

“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

“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

“gazing upon him with eyes that were too old for her face.”

— John Connolly

“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 informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. "You should go for younger women,"…

— Tana French

“Her husband closed the door on her, gently, with both hands, as if he were covering her with a blanket. He crossed in front…

— Alice McDermott

“She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was…

— Margaret Atwood

“Inevitably, the older a woman became, the less she attracted people’s eyes; now that she could go virtually unseen, it was her turn to…

— Minae Mizumura

“I thought she was older than she was, and I thought she was younger than she was. She looked older, but she acted younger,…

— Jarod Kintz

“Women found old men amusing, I guessed. At my age, I had learned to discern passing amusement from any woman’s true romantic interest in…

— H.T. Night

“There is a look in his eye, a heavy look that makes him seem older, as though in one night he has lived one…

— Lisa Ann Sandell