Quotes about girls
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“Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“beautiful girls have certain advantages.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander

White Oleander

Beauty

“But you're the most special to me, because you're the girl I love, Lara Jean”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Love

“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”

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

Guy, Relationship

“There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night.
Hit.
Panic.
Flail.
Freeze.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Way, Boy, Night

“As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Men, World, Childhood

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH…”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Big Sur (1962)

Love, Life, Way, Joy

“The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: Pink Smog

Life

“Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre," Tessa pointed out.
"No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?"
"You would make a very ugly woman."
"I would not. I would be stunning.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“I’m a girl. Every girl pretends she’s a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. And I like the idea of ‘happily ever after.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Life, Idea, Princess

“Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Love

“Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.”

J. Sheridan Le Fanu book Carmilla

Source: Carmilla

World, Summer

“Don't choose the better guy, choose the guy that's gonna make you the better girl”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Guy

“Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Life, Sadness, Sex, Soul

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”

Lisa See book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Love, Life, Problem

“This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel…”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Source: The Master and Margarita

Love, Boy, Childhood

“Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I have no idea what that is, but yawn, anyway, just on principle. Eat up. Pancakes is brain food.
Apparently not grammar food.
Wow. You college girls are mean.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

Food, Idea

“So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Love, Home, Lovers, Thinking

“I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?”

Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

“Let me get this straight. The future of our relationship hinged on advice from a fifteen-year-old girl, a probably untrue story from a one-eyed Chihuahua trainer, and me unromantically - yet skillfully - kissing you on top of silverware and china?”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Variant: The future of our relationship hinged on advice from a fifteen-year old girl, a probably untrue story from a one-eyed Chihuahua trainer, and me unromantically – yet skillfully – kissing you on top of silverware and china?
Source: The Indigo Spell

Kiss, Future

“All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Men, Kiss

“I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She’s hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Truth, Time

“I drove in last night,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep, it was too hot. So I went outside. I was feeling melancholy. Then I danced with a beautiful girl, and I felt better. What's your story?”

Jude Watson book What I Saw and How I Lied

Source: What I Saw and How I Lied

Beauty, Feeling, Sleep, Dance

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

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

Variant: Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Love, Marriage, Making love

“He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Happiness, Way

“If you were a girl, Jack said to Dell, I'd marry you.
-No. You'd just have sex with me then never call me.”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

Sex

“And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind of world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.”

Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

World, Heart

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

Source: Me: Stories of My Life

For women

“She's… just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing.”

Clive Barker book Abarat

Source: Abarat

“What is a Gallagher Girl?" Liz asked one final time. "She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy. And now we are at the end of our time at school, and the one thing I know for certain is this: a Gallagher Girl is”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

School, Time

“You are the weirdest girl ever.”
“Please. You live with Eve.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

“Kuh-laire, Is cam a fattening Girl Scout Cookie layered with peanut butter and a chocolate coating?
No.
Then dont make him a tagalong!”

Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer

Source: Boys "R" Us

Scouting

“I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Women, Thinking

“In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

World, Tear

“A girl’s relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Life

“Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

Love

“I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you?”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

Beauty, Kiss, Perfection

“Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Time

“I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

Heart

“So up I got in anger,
And took a book I had,
And put a ribbon on my hair
To please a passing lad.
And, "One thing there's no getting by --
I've been a wicked girl," said I;
But if I can't be sorry, why,
I might as well be glad!”

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

Books, Anger

“Every pretty girl is a heartbreaker”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Life, People, Memory, Clothes

“A bad boy can be very good for a girl.”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Source: Girl Stays in the Picture

Boy

“No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Forgetting

“Back in Khufu's day I knew a magician who parted the Nile just so he could climb to the bottom and retrieve a girl's necklace. Then there was that Israelite fellow, Mickey."
"Moses?"
"Yeah, him.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Parting

“You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Variant: She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
Source: I Am the Messenger

“Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy he belonged to the girl with the crow feather in her hair”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

“As a girl, I used to believe that I could see and taste the air. I was TOLD that was impossible and forgot how to do so.”

Silver RavenWolf (1956) American New Age, Magic and Witchcraft author and lecturer

Source: A Witch's Notebook: Lessons in Witchcraft

“I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.”

Lurlene McDaniel (1944) American writer

Source: Don't Die, My Love

Flowers

“This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: A Wallflower Christmas

Kiss

“You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Love, Beauty

“mr youse needn't be so spry
concernin questions arty

each has his tastes but as for i
i likes a certain party

gimme the he-man's solid bliss
for youse ideas i'll match youse

a pretty girl who naked is
is worth a million statues”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Idea, Question

“She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 2, ch. 12
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Thinking, Appearance

“It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Envy

“True. I'd always hoped that when I finally said 'I love you' to a girl, she'd say 'I know' back, like Leia did to Han in Return of the Jedi.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: I'd always hoped that when i said 'I Love You' to a girl, she'd say 'I Know' like Leia did to Han in Return Of The Jedi
Source: City of Bones

Love, Hope

“It was scary how a girl couldn't live without friends.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

“You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about getting our periods and stuff? I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.”

Meg Cabot The Princess Diaries

Source: The Princess Diaries

Way, Boy

“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children."

from chapter VIII of Les Miserables”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Children

“I asked the girl if she could bring a sister for me. She did. Sister Maria Teresa. It was a very slow evening. We discussed the New Testament. We agreed that He was very well adjusted for an only child.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Sister

“Never was a cornflake girl;
Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

Source: Under the Pink

“Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.”

Ian Fleming book Diamonds Are Forever

Source: Diamonds Are Forever

Money, Hurt

“I've got my girl and my guitar, and for me that's enough.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

“You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.”

Dashiell Hammett book Red Harvest

Source: Red Harvest

Personality

“So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.”

“I hope not. It’s a girl.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

Source: Gone With the Wind

Hope, Time, Baby

“You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

Color

“She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

People, Beauty, Help, Personality

“Pretty girls make graves.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums (1958)

“He smiled at two people walking by: a tall, good-looking boy with a streak of white in his dark hair and a brunette girl whose eyes were shaded by sunglasses. They ignored him. But”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

People, Smile, Boy

“First you say I am a murderer - an agent in league against you - and now I am a deluded heartsick girl! Pray make up your mind so I can scoff at you with precision!”

Gordon Dahlquist (1961) American writer

Source: The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Volume Two

“Dude! Put a bell on. You don't walk up on a brother like that and scare the crap out of him. (Nick)
Sorry. Didn't realize you scared like a little girl. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

“Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Golem's Eye

Source: The Golem's Eye

Chance

“Myrnin: "There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl."
Claire: "Except yours.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

“Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.”

Melody Carlson (1956) American writer

Source: The Jerk Magnet

Guy

“Scout, I´m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you´re gettin´ more like a girl every day!”
With that, I had no option but to join them.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Home, Time, Scouting

“I knew I liked her then, really liked her, this girl with an explanation for everything.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."

Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time—”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Hate, Sister, Tree, Time

“For all the invisible girls and for my readers, for seeing me”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

“Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
he liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

Boy

“Waitress!" Hedge called. "Six double espressos, and whatever these guys want. Put it on the girl's tab.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Guy

“What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Help

“I was a heartless, ungrateful wench of a girl who promised everyone who came into contact with me a one-way ticket to pain and hurt. I didn’t know how to love and I didn’t deserve to be loved back.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Love, Pain, Way, Hurt

“It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

Imagination, Game, Sport, Study

“Turns out, you can take the girl out of the spy school, but you can never take the spy school out of the girl.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

School

“When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 221.

Boy

“Reyna had always thought of Jason Grace as the all-American boy. Thalia looked more like the girl who robbed all-American boys at knifepoint in an alley.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Boy

“The girl at her music sits in another sort of light, the fitful, overcast light of lie, by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl, Interrupted”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted (1994)
Context: I've gone back to the Frick since then to look at her and at the two other Vermeers. Vermeers, after all, are hard to come by, and the one in Boston has been stolen. The other two are self-contained paintings. The people in them are looking at each other -- the lady and her maid, the soldier and his sweetheart. Seeing them is peeking at them through a hole in a wall. And the wall is made of light -- that entirely credible yet unreal Vermeer light. Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beauitful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat. The girl at her music sits in another sort of light, the fitful, overcast light of life, by which we see ourselves and others only imperfectly, and seldom.

Lie, Music, Light