Quotes about girls
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“I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

World, Guy

“By the time Alec came back into the training room, Jace was lying on the floor, envisioning lines of dancing girls in an effort to ignore the pain in his wrists. It wasn’t working.
~pg. 317~”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Pain, Lying, Effort, Time

“But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Runaway

“And to the devil with it if she is!" said the Consul. "One girl, who is not Nephilim, is not,, be our priority."

"She ispriority!" Will shouted.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“My heart belongs to you,' He promised.
'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?'
'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.”

Isobelle Carmody book Greylands

Source: Greylands

Love, Idea, Heart

“He tends to go for girls who are-Shelby, honey? Put your hands over your ears for just a sec.” Back into the phone he said, “He likes the real slutty ones. Ow!” he yelled when he received a whop to the back of the head.”

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Wild Man Creek

“What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Variant: What shall we do? All of us passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, and watermelon hearts?
Source: Blood Roses

Love, Fear, Boy, Heart

“It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Source: Book of Blues

Angels, Sun

“But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Remember Me

People

“The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Problem

“He could bring a six-foot tall pink rabbit in a bikini back home with him if he wanted to. It’s not my business. But if you’re asking me if I’ve brought any girls back here, the answer is no. I don’t want anybody but you.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Home, Business

“I tried to dredge up the same reaction other girls had around Marcus, but nothing happened. No matter how hard I tried, I just didn't have that same attraction His hair was too blond, I decided. And his eyes needed a little more green.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

“The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You

“And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

God, Question, Kiss

“They weren’t a centuries old hunter and a seventeen year old girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Bonnie and Damon.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Reunion

People, World

“At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.”

Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love

Source: A Spy in the House of Love

Lovers, Night, Wealth

“Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

“In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.”

Eve Ensler book The Vagina Monologues

Source: The Vagina Monologues

“I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that's me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I'm luckier than most because, at my school, that's considered cool.

I go to a school for spies.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

School, Feeling

“But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“And then there was Jeremiah. When I looked at Jeremiah, I saw past, present, and future. He didn’t just know the girl I used to be. He knew the right-now me, and he loved me anyway.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Love, Past, Future

“But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: Viola in Reel Life

Way, Moms, Sister

“Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap
cheat sheet.”

Janet Evanovich book To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

Cheating

“There have been other girls. But they weren't her.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

“But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

“You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.”

Greg Mortenson (1957) American mountaineer and humanitarian

Education, Change

“Okay…' I hurried on. 'But why me?'
'You're a girl,' Lockwood called. 'Aren't you supposed to be more sensitive?'
'To emotions, yes. To nuances of human behavior. Not necessarily to secret passages in a wall.'
'Oh, it's much the same thing.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Screaming Staircase

Source: The Screaming Staircase

Secret, Behavior

“Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Love of the Last Tycoon

Source: The Last Tycoon

Men, Time

“A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.”

Kelly Link (1969) American writer

“To have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and her self respect - well, that’s a trophy enough for a guy’s ego, huh?”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

Guy, Memory

“I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.”

Cameron Crowe (1957) Academy Award-winning American writer and film director

Source: Almost Famous

Hurt

“I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm”

Elizabeth Wurtzel (1967–2020) American author and journalist

Wolf, Time, Falseness

“I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap. It cheapens the giver and the recipient.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Baby Proof

Guy, Feeling

“I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing.
But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess.”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: Royal Blood

Thinking

“Hello!” The girl in the blood-red dress beamed at Leo. “Are you Dionysus?”

There was only one answer to that.
“Yes!” Leo yelped. “Absolutely. I am Dionysus.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

“So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I’ll be able to live in it. Really, it’s an investment.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

People, World, Perfection

“You Know You Love Me! XOXO Gossip Girl”

Cecily von Ziegesar (1970) American writer

Love

“All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

Men, World, Training

“If there is God, I thought… Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh…" "Tatiasha… isn't it nice to know there is a God?”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Love, God, Making love

“Renee was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever does with girls”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Beauty, Sense

“Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors. I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free, and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. XII).
Variant: I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words?
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)

Change

“In life, there are only four kinds of girls:
The girl who played with fire.
The girl who opened Pandora's Box.
The girl who gave Adam the apple.
And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Variant: In life, there are only four kinds of girls:
The girl who played with fire.
The girl who opened Pandora's Box.
The girl who gave Adam the apple.
And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.
Source: The Carrie Diaries

Life, Box

“Abe shook his head, and now the smile was gone altogether. "That's not the reason either. Don't lie to me little girl."
I felt my hackles going up. "And don't interrogate me, old man.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Lie, Smile

“I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.”

Roald Dahl book Matilda

Source: Matilda

Men, Thinking, Learning

“To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

“There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.”

Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) Chilean author

“You remind me of myself ” Bes continued “back when I was a young dwarf. 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

“Maybe wrist corsages cut off circulation to the brain? I mean, is that why so many girls do stupid things on prom night? I was really going to have to investigate this further, I decided”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Stupidity, Night

“I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

Change

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.”

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

Variant: I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, «There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

Dreams, Star, Thinking, Night

“who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Thinking

“honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.”

Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter

Boy

“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”

Greg Mortenson (1957) American mountaineer and humanitarian

Source: Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Education, Boy, Communication

“Black is a girl's best friend.”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: The Coffin Club

“So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

Guy, Imagination, Thinking, Parent

“Lara: Because sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.

Kitty: PMS?

Lara: No. It's not PMS. Just because a girl is sad, it doesn't mean it has anything to do with PMS.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Sadness, Feeling

“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

God, Kiss, Wedding

“But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.”

William Goldman The Silent Gondoliers

Source: The Silent Gondoliers

Boy, Dead

“A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Guy, Feeling, Bird, Waiting

“Just so you know Gallagher Girl,' he whispered softly, 'I'm going to kiss you now.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Kiss

“… the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks
and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a
trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!”

Gaston Leroux book The Phantom of the Opera

Source: The Phantom of the Opera

Forgetting

“I get the feeling," Alec said, and smiled, "she hasn't forgiven me for betraying you, as she sees it."
"Good girl," said Jace with appreciation.
"I didn't betray you, idiot."
"It's the thought that counts.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Smile, Feeling

“Max?” said the Gasman. “Are those, um, rats?”
Lovely. “Yes, those do appear to be either rats or mice on steroids,” I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Love, Appearance

“What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

“So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max”

James Patterson book Maximum Ride

Source: Max

“Hey!" Claire called after him, as she leaned her backpack against the wall.
"No onions!"
"Your loss!"
"I meant for YOU! Not if you want to get kissed tonight!"
"Damn, girl. Harsh.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Kiss, Loss

“A girl doesn't notice unfairness until she falls in love”

Yoshiki Nakamura (1969) Artist

Love

“I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Way, Boy, Thinking

“Beckendorf walked up with his helmet under his arm. 'She likes you, man.'
'Sure,' I muttered. 'She likes me for target practice.'
'Nah, they always do that. A girl starts trying to kill you, you know she's into you.
'Makes a lot of sense.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Files

Source: The Demigod Files

Sense

“A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred.”

Steve Martin book Shopgirl

Source: Shopgirl

Lovers, Sleep, Waiting

“What is a Gallagher Girl?
She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy… a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Happiness

“Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like… having rock-star problems.'
'Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Beauty, Star, Problem, Thinking

“Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me… I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

Way

“Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Love

“What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me.”

Erich Segal (1937–2010) American writer

Variant: What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.

Love, Beauty

“The girl behind the scrawled letters. I loved you from the moment I read them. I love you still.” - Will Herondale”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love, Reading