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Eight Years Old - Irma Albinus
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Margot Peters 16

When she was barely sixteen she became friendly with the girl who served behind the counter of a small stationery shop at the corner. This girl’s young sister was already earning a decent living as an artist’s model. So Margot dreamed of becoming a model, and then a film star. This transition seemed to her quite a simple matter: the sky was there, ready for her star. At about the same time she learned to dance, and now and then went with the shopgirl to the “Paradise” dance hall where elderly men made her extremely frank proposals to the crash and whine of a jazz band.

Vladimir Nabokov  ·  Laughter in the Dark (kamepa-obckypa - Camera obscura) (Trans. Vladimir Nabokov)

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Debbee Kensit

London Fields

Martin Amis

"Miss Debbee Kensit. Sixteen today. On your feet, girl..."

16

Meg Bailey

Don't Look At Me Like That

Diana Athill

"At sixteen the things I knew about my appearance were that my hair was straight, that my hands and feet were too big, and that I had horrible, pale eyes..."

16

Isabelle Borgé

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"She had been sixteen years old for six months..."

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Dorcas

Jazz

Toni Morrison

"Dorcas, at sixteen, has yet to wear silk hose and her shoes are those of someone much younger or very old..."

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Evey Hammond

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore

"B-but there's nothing to tell. I'm only sixteen. I haven't done anything."

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Rose Wilson

Brighton Rock

Graham Greene

"...the long experience of her sixteen years..."

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Rebecca Sharp

Vanity Fair: Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society

William Makepeace Thackeray

"...when Rebecca was sixteen years old, Miss Pinkerton majestically, and with a little speech, made her a present of a doll..."

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Blanche Dubois

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

"When I was sixteen, I made the discovery – love..."

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Elisabeth

Les Enfants Terribles aka The Holy Terrors

Jean Cocteau

"The door opened wide to reveal a girl of sixteen, with a strong physical resemblance to Paul..."

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Monica Douglas

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark

"Now, at sixteen, Monica Douglas was a prefect, famous mostly for mathematics which she could do in her brain..."

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Portia Quayne

The Death of the Heart

Elizabeth Bowen

"‘I do quite enjoy myself, even now.’"

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Sabina

A Spy in the House of Love

Anaïs Nin

"At sixteen Sabina took moon-baths, first of all because everyone else took sun-baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous..."