Quotes of: Young-girls Keyword

If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.

A Girl's Adventure

Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning?

The Girl Behind the Painted Smile: My battle with the bottle

He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.

The Girl in Blue

Follow Your Dreams, Except the One Where You’re at School in Your Underwear

A Girl Named Digit

The stench that surrounded me suggested that the tarp over my face had been previously used either to transport fertiliser or as toilet paper.

A Girl Named Digit

It isn't you,' he says, as though you're to be comforted by the irrelevant role you play in your own life.

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?

The Girl With Glass Feet

Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.

The Girl With Glass Feet

I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had hurt him.

Glass Girl

Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.

The Girl with All the Gifts

Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.

The Goose Girl

A big refugee camp governed by real terror and artificially pumped-up optimism - like the bastard child of Butlins and Colditz.

The Girl with All the Gifts

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy. ...

A Girl of the Limberlost

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

Gourmet Rhapsody

Life, here I come!' he said. And was immediately and fatally run over by a bus.

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

Billions of people have had sex. I don't know how many have actually made love.

The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex:

That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no.

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

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

The Girl on the Train

She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

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