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Isabelle Borgé 16

She paused at the top of the staircase. The sensations attributed to divers on spring-boards, leading ladies on opening nights, and lumpy, husky young men on the day of the Big Game, crowded through her. She should have descended to a burst of drums or a discordant blend of themes from Thais and Carmen. She had never been so curious about her appearance, she had never been so satisfied with it. She had been sixteen years old for six months.

F. Scott Fitzgerald  ·  This Side of Paradise

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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

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..."

16

Evey Hammond

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore

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

16

Rose Wilson

Brighton Rock

Graham Greene

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

16

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..."

16

Blanche Dubois

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

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

16

Margot Peters

Laughter in the Dark (kamepa-obckypa - Camera obscura)

Vladimir Nabokov

"Margot dreamed of becoming a model, and then a film star..."

16

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..."

16

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..."

16

Portia Quayne

The Death of the Heart

Elizabeth Bowen

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

16

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..."