Quotes about girls
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“There are big bad wolves all over the world who tremble at the sound of his name, yet a little puny coyote girl peanut-buttered the seat of Bran Cornick’s car because he told her that she should wear a dress to perform for the pack.”

Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned

Source: Frost Burned

“You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Source: Lucky

“When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain.”

Maud Hart Lovelace book Betsy in Spite of Herself

Source: Betsy in Spite of Herself

“I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“A smile is the best makeup a girl could wear”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“I hate it when straight guys think all gay guys are attracted to them. I'm not attracted to every guy any more than you're attracted to every girl.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Variant: No, I couldn’t,” Alec said. “I hate it when straight guys think all gay guys are attracted to them. I’m not attracted to every guy any more than you’re attracted to every girl.
Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Hate, Guy, Thinking

“Seventy-six years old," she whispers, "and I can still feel like this? Like a little girl with stars in my eyes?”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

“I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.”

Marcus Sedgwick (1968) British writer and illustrator

Source: The Foreshadowing

“But what I found most interesting was that Aaron had apparently found a way to pass the time without her. Beside him, holding his hand, was a Moroi girl who looked about eleven but had to be older, unless he'd become a pedophile during our absence.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.”

Anya Seton book The Winthrop Woman

Source: The Winthrop Woman

Books, Learning, Reading

“What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

Source: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

“A womans mistakes are different from a girls”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”

Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Ch. 35

“I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Love, Men, God, Truth

“Any moment now…" The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water.
No magical raft appeared.
"Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Water, Appearance

“The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Story of Us

Love, Books, Way, Clothes

“You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.”

Raymond Chandler book The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye

“A girl can stand just so much virtue.”

Loraine Despres (1938) Novelist/screen writer

The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By

“I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin. It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“Every girl is a goddess.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

“Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

“What's the matter Jaimy? Ain't-cha never seen a girl before?
-Jacky Faber”

L.A. Meyer Bloody Jack

Source: Bloody Jack

“But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I'd done in their bed when I was three or four, snug and warm in the safest place in the world.

Instead I had Hell.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: Darkness, Be My Friend

World, Hell, Parent

“Girl, are you on medication?” Nurse Debra asked.
“No, of course not,” Madison answered impatiently.
“Maybe you should be,” Debra muttered.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: Sexiest Vampire Alive

“Just Leo’s luck. A super-hot immortal girl was waiting for him on Ogygia, but he couldn’t figure out how to wire a stupid chunk of rock into the three-thousand-year-old navigation device. Some problems even duct tape couldn’t solve.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Stupidity, Problem, Waiting

“Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

“Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships”

Cecily von Ziegesar book You Know You Love Me

Source: You Know You Love Me

“then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Beautiful and Damned

Source: The Beautiful and Damned

“Why is it, she wondered now, that boys get to do things and be things and girls only get to watch?”

Jennifer Donnelly (1963) American writer

Source: These Shallow Graves

“This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

God, World, Birthday

“James had given his heart to this
girl, Magnus thought, and Magnus knew
well enough from Edmund and Will what
it meant when a Herondale gave his heart
away. It was not a gift that could be
returned.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

“Girl, he wants to dip you in Frosted Flakes and have you for breakfast. That's his favorite cereal, by the way." I… had no words for that.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

“Superglue after duct tape a girl's best friend.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

“We killed an innocent girl”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Source: Twisted

“But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed.
And, of course, completely fake.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

“Is Adrian here?”
“Who?”
“Adrian. Tall. Brown hair. Green eyes.”
She frowned. “Do you mean Jet?”
“I … I’m not sure. Does he smoke like a chimney?”
The girl nodded sagely. “Yup. You must mean Jet.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

“I had a stupid crush on a guy who barely tolerated me most of the time. Was that the kind of girl I was? Pick the jerk over the nice guy?”

Kelley Armstrong The Reckoning

Source: The Reckoning

Stupidity, Jerk, Guy, Time

“You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Secret Vampire

Love, Beauty, Understanding, Singing

“All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this God-damn world
upside down to do it.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

“For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Love, Life, Help

“What are you doing here?” [ndr prison]
Selling Girl Scout cookies,” I said. “Want some? The Samoas are terrific.”
(Max II to Max)”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

“Poor you, you have two cute girls vying for your love. Your life is hard.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

“I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.”

Mary Hoffman book City of Masks

Source: City of Masks

Search, Thinking, Help

“Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.”

Candace Bushnell book One Fifth Avenue

Source: One Fifth Avenue

“People say I'm not much of a girl either," Tiger Lily said.
She thought of Tik Tok, who was fond of saying that people were all bits of each thing, boy and girl.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

“Please," said Lirael…"I think I would like to work in this Library."
"The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Lirael

“Ned said "Nancy Drew is the best girl detective in the whole world!"
"Don't you believe him," Nancy said quickly. "I have solved some mysteries, I'll admit, and I enjoy it, but I'm sure there are many other girls who could do the same.”

Carolyn Keene book Nancy's Mysterious Letter

Source: Nancy's Mysterious Letter

“While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.”

Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) African Americans' rights activist

“Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.”

John Ciardi (1916–1986) American poet, professor, translator

“After a minute, Gat leaned back and let me go first. “Not because you’re a girl but because I’m a good person,” he told me.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.”

Michael Chabon book The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Source: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

“The pretty girl is always right.”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“Kevin slapped a box of hot dogs down on the rock. “What the hell was that?”
“A kiss. It’s something guys like me do with girls we like. But don’t worry, someday you’ll find one drunk enough to let you try it.”

Shannon Stacey (1972) american writer

Source: Exclusively Yours

Dogs, Guy, Hell, Kiss

“I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.”

Joanna Russ book The Female Man

Source: The Female Man

“I shall not tell your husband and you shall not tell my wife."
Tell them what?"
That you and I were outwitted by a ropma."
That would be shamful."
Girl, we could never live it down.”

Donita K. Paul (1950) American writer

Source: DragonFire

“In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

“Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Religion, Cars, Way, Feeling

“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero you're the beautiful one it's society who's ugly.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Attributed to Monroe in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed

Beauty, Thinking, Beauty

“She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn't apply to Calypso. Obviously.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“The whole thing of what I’ve been trying,” you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don’t think about them, because of the way you are.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“Well…" St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: It Happened One Autumn

“That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain.

Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. (to Inara) Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.”

Megan Abbott book Dare Me

Source: Dare Me

“The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.”

Georgette Heyer book Black Sheep

Source: Black Sheep

“You look fine.
- Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.”

Zadie Smith On Beauty

Source: On Beauty

“A girl’s love for her father. Immutable. Unbearable but unbreakable.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

“This behavior may… counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl, Interrupted”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Behavior, Feeling

“Well, I remember this girl. I am not whole without her. I am not alive without her. When she was with me I was more alive than I have ever been, and not only when she was pleasant either. Even when we were fighting I was whole.”

John Steinbeck book Sweet Thursday

Source: Sweet Thursday

“That was what people did when they wanted to stop a girl from doing something—they shamed her.”

Jennifer Donnelly (1963) American writer

Source: These Shallow Graves

“[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?”
“They’re ravished in haylofts?” she inquired hopefully.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

“There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.”

Anne McCaffrey Dragonsinger

Source: Dragonsinger

“Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Last Breath

“It's a GIRL.
It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.”

Sophie Kinsella (1969) British writer

Source: Shopaholic & Baby

“A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Boy, Sleep, Time

“Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.”

Maya Angelou book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Ch 13 The Quaker Settlement
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

“He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled…”

Ernest Hemingway book Across the River and into the Trees

Source: Across the River and into the Trees

“Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you."
"Of course they are," he said. "I am stunningly attractive.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“He glanced over at me, a smile twisting his lips. "Hey, no advice, Ghost Girl. Guardians should be seen and not heard."
I flipped him off for the "Ghost Girl" comment but he didn't notice because Lissa was talking to him again.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.”

Darren Shan book Lord Loss

Source: Lord Loss

“preety girls behave best when you ignore them”

Chetan Bhagat (1974) Indian author, born 1974

“An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.”

Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape

“Even the sweetest girl needs a hard center, or she's not gonna make it out there!!" - Sakura”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 09: Turning the Tables

“God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

God, Box, Scouting

“I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.”

George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion

Source: Pygmalion

“My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel.
Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

Way, Feeling, Problem, Thinking