“What young woman is not, more or less, a mirror?”
Source: Christie Johnstone (1853), CHAPTER I
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“The publishing world tends to focus more on the “young”, less on the “adult.””
But I spend lots of time with teenagers and they’re truly the broadband generation. They’ve been online all their lives and seen things that would make milk curdle: beheadings, graphic violence, hardcore porn. Shielding them is never going to work. What makes this book YA is that it tackles issues in a non-judgmental way. We know these things exist, so let’s talk about them…
On why her young adult novel Clean contains drugs, sex and swearing in “Juno Dawson: ‘Teenagers have seen things that would make milk curdle’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/01/juno-dawson-clean-interview-transgender-anorexia-drugs in The Guardian (2018 Apr 1)

Nichts ist weniger verheißend als Frühreife; die junge Distel sieht einem zukünftigen Baume viel ähnlicher als die junge Eiche.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 27.

“Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”
Source: Burnt Tongues

“The more bosom a woman displayed, the less she wanted you to look. Openly, at least.”
Matrim Cauthon
A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)

“I love being a beautiful woman when I look at myself in the mirror.”
June 15, 2017; Al Kahera Walnas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LcMvesgyTM
2017