Quotes about girls
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“Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“Think positive girl, or the world ends.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

World, Thinking

“A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.”

Patricia Briggs book Moon Called

Source: Moon Called

Evil

“his hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night.
Percy Jackson”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Night

“You don't need to worry, though. He's not my type."
"I don't think I've ever heard a girl say that before," said Simon. "I thought Jace was the kind of guy who was everyone's type.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Guy, Thinking

“For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Heart

“Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are?

Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!”

Georgette Heyer book The Grand Sophy

Source: The Grand Sophy

“What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Beauty, Dreams, Guy, Feeling

“You got a stubborn
streak. When it comes to girl problems you’re clueless.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Problem

“Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and true as the Ya-Yas.”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Women, Daughters

“If kids stay up late, it's very bad for their brain development… they said that on TV…. You want to become a stupid girl, Yuuki?”

Matsuri Hino Japanese manga artist

Source: Vampire Knight, Vol. 1

Stupidity

“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

God, Waiting

“I glanced at my brother. "How the hell did you jump to that conclusion?!" I asked.
He just grinned and tapped the side of his head. "Brains, dear girl, brains."
I snorted softly."I wasn't aware that was where you kept your brains.”

Keri Arthur Australian writer

Hell

“If I'm a little girl, then that makes you a serious pervert.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

“And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

Dreams, Sea

“There's in my mind a…
turbulent moon-ridden girl

or old woman, or both,
dressed in opals and rags, feathers

and torn taffeta,
who knows strange songs

but she is not kind.”

Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet

Source: Poems, 1972-1982

“Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Understanding

“Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.”

Nicole Blackman (1971) American musician

Way, Home

“Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl… interrupted.”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Life, Dreams, Training

“Cash or check?” he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later?

“Bank’s closed, pal.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Kiss

“Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.”

Muriel Spark book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Life, Age

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”

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

World, Smile

“Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.”

Tucker Max (1975) Internet personality; blogger; author

“A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.”

Louisa May Alcott book An Old-Fashioned Girl

Source: An Old-Fashioned Girl

“Relationship Principle 9
Every guy knows he can find a girl who is simply satisfied with satisfying him. They are much more turned on by a woman who cares about her own pleasure as well.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Variant: Every guy knows he can find a girl who is simply satisfied with satisfying him. They are much more turnd on by a woman who cares about her own pleasures as well.
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart

Pleasure, Guy

“She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Love

“I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Love

“If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you… he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

World, Chance

“… for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

Lovers

“But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Game

“A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Boy, Change

“She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The Death of the Heart

Source: The Death of the Heart

Fate

“Why did you say you believed me?"
In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered.
"Because I trust you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry
a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

“I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!”

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

Love, God, Idea, Personality

“When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: The Short Stories

Feeling, Parting, Forgetting

“What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?”

Erich Segal book Love Story

Source: Love Story

“I just don’t see how anyone can be so cold. (Kiara)
And you should be grateful, little girl, to whatever god you worship, that you can say that. In the world we come from, I don’t understand how anyone can be anything but cold. (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

God, World, Understanding

“It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.”

Emma Forrest (1976) British journalist, novelist and screenwriter

Source: Your Voice in My Head

Love, Pain, Beauty, Thinking

“You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair…”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“He even listened to more than her sounds, because Tiger Lily was a girl of few words. He listened with his eyes, watched her facial expressions, judged body language, and therefore read Tiger Lily better than anyone else.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Reading

“She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Beauty

“But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Lie, Home, Sea

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Men, Star

“What is it with you and girls, Adrian, dear? Why do they either mean nothing to you or everything? It's always an extreme."
"Because I don't do things in halves, mom. Especially when it comes to love.”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

Source: Silver Shadows

Love, Moms

“Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.”

Janet Evanovich book Plum Spooky

Source: Plum Spooky

Truth, Faith

“It's every little girl's dream," she said. "Interpol surveillance. And kittens.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

Dreams

“There were drinks and food in full force, and some Moroi guy had a guitar out and was trying to impress girls with his musical skills—which were nonexistent. In fact, his music was so awful that he might have discovered a new way to kill Strigoi.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Food, Music, Way, Guy

“The hatred I feel for him, for the phantom girl, for everything, is so real and immediate it chokes me. Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it?”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Life, Feeling

“Shigure Sohma: singing High school girls high school girls all for me High school girls”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

School, Singing

“Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Source: Paint it Black

Truth, Fashion, Learning

“Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry. I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line.”

Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet

O Taste and See : New Poems (1964), The Secret
Source: Poems, 1960-1967

Life, Secret

“Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".”

Nick Hornby book Slam

Source: Slam

Madness

“girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
deserve them

besides
there is
no way
I would welcome
the
intolerable
dull
senseless hell
you would bring
me

and
I wish you
luck
in bed
and
out

but not
in
mine

thank
you.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Men, Way, Hell

“Four hundred years of losing out on the girl of my dreams isn't sitting very well with me these days.”

Alyson Nöel book Dark Flame

Source: Dark Flame

Dreams

“Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?"
He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter… what happens to me.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“she was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad”

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

Variant: She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know

Happiness, Sadness

“And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Love, World, Dreams, Kiss

“That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.”

Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

Life, Pleasure

“Girl, it's an umbrella, not a Lamborghini”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

“She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Way, Feeling, Help

“Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“Here's a hot tip: Most girls don't like being stalked.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?”

Kelley Armstrong book The Summoning

Source: The Summoning

Guy, Time

“Hey girl," he said, wiggling his eyebrows. "You must be the riptide, 'cause you sweep me off my feet."
He'd be practicing that pickup line for years. He was glad he finally got yo use it.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

Source: A Countess Below Stairs

World, Music

“Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go."
"Ooh, me, too," Eve said.
The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it.
"What? It's what girls do. Get over it.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Boy

“I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Way, Boy, Thinking

“‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Love, Soul, Understanding

“They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Smile, Tea

“And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.”

Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter

Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

People, Stupidity, Beauty

“And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head.”

Robin Jones Gunn (1955) American writer

Source: In Your Dreams

Life, Boy

“You make a good point,' Fletcher conceded. 'See, there's a reason why you're the girl and I'm the boy. You think about things while I…'
'Don't?'
'Exactly,' he said happily.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Boy, Thinking

“A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend”

Paris Hilton (1981) American socialite

“You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.”

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

Source: Summer Knight

“So do you think it's true what they say? About girls liking bastards?'
'He's not a bastard. He's an idiot.'
'Do girls like idiots then?”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Thinking

“He looks at me in such a way that I know for sure-he's never looked at another girl quite like this.
And the I'm in his arms, and we're hugging and kissing, and we're both shaking, because we both know-this is the night we become real.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Way, Kiss, Night

“No ale for the girl, Birgit," Aidan said to the woman. "Do we not have milk?"

Regin's face heated. And all the worse, because she would dearly love some milk.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Love

“When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

An explanation of relativity which he gave to his secretary Helen Dukas to convey to non-scientists and reporters, as quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, l56 (1957) by James B. Simpson; also in Expandable Quotable Einstein (2005) edited by Alice Calaprice William Hermanns recorded a series of four conversations he had with Einstein and published them in his book Einstein and the Poet (1983), quoting Einstein saying this variant in a 1948 conversation: "To simplify the concept of relativity, I always use the following example: if you sit with a girl on a garden bench and the moon is shining, then for you the hour will be a minute. However, if you sit on a hot stove, the minute will be an hour." ( p. 87 http://books.google.com/books?id=QXCyjj6T5ZUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=false) In the 1985 book Einstein in America, Jamie Sayen wrote "Einstein devised the following explanation for her [Helen Dukas] to give when asked to explain relativity: An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour." ( p. 130 http://books.google.com/books?ei=yma3TsDWK8WciQL63smAAQ&ct=book-thumbnail&id=vs3aAAAAMAAJ&dq=sayen+%22einstein+in+america%22&q=pretty+girl#search_anchor) Attributed in posthumous publications Variant: When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Funny

“I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

Love

“Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy