Quotes about girls
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Isobelle Carmody photo
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“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

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“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

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Cassandra Clare photo
Richelle Mead photo
Sarah Dessen photo

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

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You

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“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

Eve Ensler photo
Jenny Han photo
Janet Evanovich photo
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“There have been other girls. But they weren't her.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Jack Kerouac photo
Greg Mortenson photo
Jonathan Stroud photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
Kelly Link photo
Jerry Spinelli photo
Cameron Crowe photo
Elizabeth Wurtzel photo
Rick Riordan photo
Sophie Kinsella photo
Cecily von Ziegesar photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Jordan Sonnenblick photo
Emily Brontë photo

“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?”

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)

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“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.”

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

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Roald Dahl photo
Cassandra Clare photo

“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

Rick Riordan photo
Emily Brontë photo
Marilyn Monroe photo

“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.

Daniel Handler photo
Greg Mortenson photo

“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

“Black is a girl's best friend.”

Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer

Source: The Coffin Club

Jenny Han photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo
William Goldman photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Gaston Leroux photo
Cassandra Clare photo
James Patterson photo
Ann Brashares photo
James Patterson photo
Rachel Caine photo
Stephen Chbosky photo
Rick Riordan photo
Steve Martin photo
Louisa May Alcott photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Gabrielle Zevin photo
Libba Bray photo
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“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.

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“"I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard. "Can you?"
"Never mind," Fflewddur said. "We aren't really expected to."”

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 12

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Francesca Lia Block photo

“At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

David Levithan photo
P.G. Wodehouse photo
Dave Barry photo

“He was distracted by a giggle, and turned to see a rare sight: a girl.”

Source: Peter and the Starcatchers

Marilyn Monroe photo
Sarah Mlynowski photo

“They write songs about California girls for a reason.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

Haruki Murakami photo
Cassandra Clare photo
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