“This woman was eighteen years old. With eyes as old as stones.”

“I have a body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.”

“They know the autumn's the peak season for harvesting, and that the crop is eighteen-year-olds.”

“I am not the same kind of Mormon girl I was when I was seven, eight, or eighteen years old.  I am not an orthodox Mormon woman like my mother.  I am an unorthodox Mormon woman with a fierce and hungry faith. ”

“I was supposed to be babysitting an eighteen-year-old blind, rich kid, and he locked himself in a closet! Honestly.”

“A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.”

“I was a normal eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting.”