"Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"Girls are like slugs—they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what."
— Bill Watterson (The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes)

"Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?"
"Girls don't often ask questions like that," said Hermione.
"Well, they should!" said Harry forcefully."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."
— Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)

"Edmund: Girls arent really good at storing maps in their heads.
Lucy: Thats 'cause we have something in them. "
— Prince Caspian (the movie)

"That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"'This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.'"
— Jennifer Weiner

"See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin"
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

"Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses."
— J.M. Barrie

"I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads."
— Jennifer Weiner

"'When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there... whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.'"
— Jennifer Weiner

"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 (To Kill a Mockingbird)

""sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition." "
— Sophia Patrillo

"He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.'"
— Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)

"As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths about tragedy: You can dream of disappearing. You can wish for oblivion, for endless sleep or the escape of fiction, of walking into a river with your pockets full of stones, of letting the dark water close over your head. But if you've got kids, the web of the world holds you close and wraps you tight and keeps you from falling no matter how badly you think you want to fall."
— Jennifer Weiner

"The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine"
— Emily Saliers

"Girls, there are poets who learn from you
to say, what you, in your aloneness, are;
and they learn through you to live distantness,
as the evenings through the great stars
become accustomed to eternity."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (The Book of Images)

"To tell the truth, girls are no longer the way they used to be. They play gangsters, nowadays, just like boys. They organize rackets. They plan holdups and practice karate. They will rape defenseless adolescents. They wear pants... Life has become impossible."
— Alain Robbe-Grillet (Djinn)

"...thinking that the world was like an orange, that I could split it open with my thumbnail and find a whole different world, the grown-up world, the secrets beneath the skin."
— Jennifer Weiner

"I saw the movie, he said. I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or so - he leaned toward us - their tits bleed."
— Jeffrey Eugenides (The Virgin Suicides)

"EVERY STORY HAS A END.BUT IN LIFE,EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING"
— DOKOTA FANNING

"One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes."
— Scarlett Thomas (PopCo)

"Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of without making any effort at all. I don't have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue. I don't have to think about whether I do these things well, as well as a boy. All I have to do is sit on the floor and cut frying pans our of the Eaton's Catalogue with embroidery scissors, and say I've done it badly."
— Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)

"Who knew? Oftentimes , if you purchase many items at once, you'll get great deals. Find a well-stocked store and come bearing a list of things you're in the market for. Bundle purchases, and bargains ensue."
— Nina Willdorf (City Chic: An Urban Girl's Guide to Livin' Large on Less)

"Mr. Pappadakis smells like Just for Men peroxide dye and eucalyptus foot unguents. He has a face like a catcher's mitt. The whole thing puckers inward, drooping with the memory of some dropped fly ball."
— Karen Russell

"EVERY STORY HAS A END.BUT IN LIFE,EVERY END IS A NEW BEGINNING"
— DOKOTA FANNING

"It happens when you least expect it: the sudden,painful sting that hurts deeply, because you thought you were in a safe place, with other women and immune to harm. This is female relational aggression (RA): the subtle art of emotional devastation that takes place at home, at work, or in community settings."
— Cheryl Dellasega, Ph.D.