“What young woman is not, more or less, a mirror?”

— Charles Reade, book Christie Johnstone

Source: Christie Johnstone (1853), CHAPTER I

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British writer 1814–1884

Steve Perry (1947) American writer

Source: Matadora (1986), Chapter 1 (p. 5)

“The publishing world tends to focus more on the “young”, less on the “adult.””

Juno Dawson (1981) British youth fiction author

But I spend lots of time with teenagers and they’re truly the broadband generation. They’ve been online all their lives and seen things that would make milk curdle: beheadings, graphic violence, hardcore porn. Shielding them is never going to work. What makes this book YA is that it tackles issues in a non-judgmental way. We know these things exist, so let’s talk about them…<br><br>On why her young adult novel Clean contains drugs, sex and swearing in “Juno Dawson: ‘Teenagers have seen things that would make milk curdle’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/01/juno-dawson-clean-interview-transgender-anorexia-drugs in The Guardian (2018 Apr 1)

“Nothing is less promising than precociousness; the young thistle looks much more like a future tree than the young oak.”

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer

Nichts ist weniger verheißend als Frühreife; die junge Distel sieht einem zukünftigen Baume viel ähnlicher als die junge Eiche.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 27.