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* Played extremely straight in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''; all Bella does is obsess over Edward and how perfect he is. Most of the other female characters aren't much better. Edward is just as bad (if not worse, given his stalker-ish tendencies), and practically every other male thinks about little besides [[Mary Sue|Bella.]]
** One of the harshest criticisms leveled against ''[[Twilight (novel)|New Moon]]'' is Bella's reaction to Edward leaving her, which includes pages left ''blank'' for the first four months he's gone, implying that without him her life is literally nothing.
* ''[[Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.]]''. In all fairness, it was written in 1970, when discussing things like periods and puberty outside of health class was still somewhat taboo. [[Judy Blume]] was somewhat notorious for tropes like this, which gave a coronary to the [[Moral Guardians]] of the day, but back then the intent was to show girls that was all OKAY.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Daenerys suddenly starts acting very hormonal in ''A Dance with Dragons''.
* Used heartbreakingly in the Lois Lowry YA book ''A Summer to Die''—Molly, the elder sister, is obsessed with boys and the idea of getting married, to the severe annoyance of her younger sister Meg (who is secretly jealous of Molly's boyfriends and good looks). Molly gets sick and Meg at first resents that all her parents' attention is paid to her sister, until she realizes Molly's illness is something serious (it turns out to be leukemia) and she's going to die. Thoughts of boys and weddings help Molly keep some semblance of an idea that she's still a person, not just a terminal patient.
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