Tana French Quotes

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have.

I think most girls have that moment when boys they've known their whole life see them in a different way.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

I was so boisterous in high-school, I don't think a lot of boys liked me that much 'cause they were like, 'Oh, she's so loud and so crazy.' But then this thing happens in your late twenties, and guys begin to take note of women's personalities more or something.

It's a bit different when you're 16 as to when you're 20. You're a little bit more developed and mature in your body.

The guys who spend their time brooding in their younger years either lighten up or go away.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

I feel better now at 38 then I did when I was 17. But then, when I was 17 I did have the attitude of a 40 year-old.