Quotes of: Boys-and-girls Keyword

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

... you've experienced the single scene out there - it's blood test and background checks and references and 'Please pee in this cup before we can go on a date' screenings, all clinical and stripped bare of any romance.

A Girl's Guide to Vampires

Dad says there are more than three thousand letters in the Japanese alphabet, which could pose a problem. There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, and I get into enough trouble with them as it is.

The Girl from the Well

It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads.

Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.

Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation

I know we planned to walk down to Schubert's for burgers, but can we go upstairs first?' She raised her eyebrows. 'What for?' 'Because I need to be inside you. Like...now.

Bad Girl by Night

Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of - and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.

Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity

The little girl’s face was from Will’s vilest nightmares. Cavernous mouth, distended chin, bastardized nose. The enormous, bulging eyes glared at Will, demanded he see the truth, commanded him to acknowledge his sin.

Beneath the Surface of Things

A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said. "Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel." "Easy mistake to make," Jem said.

Clockwork Angel

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-i...

Ani DiFranco

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody...

Amanda Seyfried

I grab the pillows off the bed and chuck them at the reflection in the mirror of the girl I no longer know. I watch as the girl in the mirror stares back at me, sobbing pathetically. The weakness in her tears infuriates me.

Hopeless

As my nostrils filled with the stench of burnt hair and my friends scurried to clean up the mess, I thought, 'If your hair catches on fire while you're making a wish, does that mean it isn't coming true?

The Invisible Girls: A Memoir

When you look back and realize there is no way you would have had a better life with another person, that's when the relationship or marriage becomes worth it.

If I Were A Girl, I Would Not...

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.

The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle

Once upon a long ago time I was a girl with hopeful halos in my eyes—not unlike you—not a typical beauty but beautiful nonetheless, as all young girls tend to be in their prime, even if they don’t tend to know it.

Small Town Demons

Using one’s beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that’s how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could be a nurse or a teacher or a wife.

Small Town Demons