"Fonny kissed me good night one night when he was twenty-one and I eighteen..."

"I was eighteen and no one had ever held my hand before..."

"Arithmetic, you see, is useful; without its aid, I should hardly have been able to guess your age..."

"Natalia Landauer, as I saw her, for the first time, three days later, was a schoolgirl of eighteen..."

"I haven’t the patience to write books; and I never met a man I’d marry. However, I’m only eighteen ..."

"'We’re eighteen and we’re bored to death.’ She lit a cigarette and puffed vigorously. She went on: ‘We want to live. Drink gin. Squeeze into the front of big cars and drive up outside big hotels. We want to go places...'"

"On May twentieth she was eighteen; it seemed incredible – Vincent had thought her many years older..."

"Eighteen, huh? How long’ve you been on the run? Away from your parents?"

"An eighteen-year-old girl from Silver Wells, Nevada, graduates from the Consolidated Union High School in Tonopah and goes to New York to take acting lessons, how do you figure it?"

"My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance..."

" I thought her anywhere between sixteen and thirty; as it turned out, she was shy two months of her nineteenth birthday..."

"Eighteen – why that’s a terribly important age..."

"When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things..."