“After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.”
“When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?""No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.”
“She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.”
“Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.”
“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.”
“He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.”