Anna Godbersen Quotes


All really interesting girls invent themselves. Anna Godbersen Girls 81
They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight. Anna Godbersen Magic 74
It is a fact of big cities that one girls darkest how is always anothers moment of shining triumph and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all. Anna Godbersen New york city 67
Diana felt she was beginning to understand why in all those novels she read the headiest loves were the loves that couldnt be. Anna Godbersen Novels 66
I cant imagine what my life was before. I cant imagine ever being without you for very long again. Anna Godbersen Alone 66
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale. Anna Godbersen Envy 64
She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing. Anna Godbersen Energy 62
THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies dark secrets and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899. Anna Godbersen Boys 62
Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry. Anna Godbersen Sleep 57
Interesting people were her favorite hobby. She collected them the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company those would have most scandalized her own mother. Anna Godbersen People 57
Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop. Anna Godbersen Choices 53
It was disgraceful but also romantic enough to make Linas heart turn. Anna Godbersen Romantic 53
It is easy to forget now how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Anna Godbersen Summer 50
Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive. Anna Godbersen Regret 49
Diana knew it wouldnt be right but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you. Anna Godbersen Guilt 48
Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man. Anna Godbersen Thinking 44
She had rarely been near Henry since then and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose. Anna Godbersen Desire 43
Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him. Anna Godbersen Lust 42
What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends. Anna Godbersen Jealousy 42
Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes. Anna Godbersen Woman 41
Girls their mother interjected you must both stop being strange it is unattractive. And dont forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this. Anna Godbersen Mothers 41
Love is all right as things go but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girls time. Anna Godbersen Girl 41
She was trying to sound tough and impatient but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone. Anna Godbersen Desire 40
The world is such a marvelit gave you trials but if you were still and concentrated if you tried to do the right thing it always provided you with salvation. Anna Godbersen Salvation 37
Its the craziest thing but I cant stop thinking about you. Anna Godbersen Thinking 37
She found herself longing for homenot just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there. Anna Godbersen Novels 37
That is what I want to tell you about the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and bigcity dreams. The girls of 1929. Anna Godbersen Girls 36
That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines shed always believed took their fate into their own hands. Anna Godbersen Novels 35
As she always did on any really important day Penelope Hayes wore red. Anna Godbersen Fashion 34
Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and fathers home. Anna Godbersen Marriage 34
You dont need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self. Anna Godbersen Money 33
Instead he sat in the parlor of his familys Fifth Avenue mansion growing older by the minute just like everybody else. Anna Godbersen Aging 33
Dont go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are. Anna Godbersen Advice 33
He was a mystery to her and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts stronger each time. Anna Godbersen Running 33
The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead with each passing day in the afterlife become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound. Anna Godbersen Dead 32
Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you. Anna Godbersen Conscience 31
Living too much in ones head can be dangerous. Anna Godbersen Imagination 31
Ah well that I cant tell you. Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think Ill keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself. Anna Godbersen Opinion 30
Good night. Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart couldnt possibly withstand any more. Anna Godbersen Dignity 29
Henry wondered not for the first time if her blood ran red or black. Anna Godbersen Hatred 29
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts. Anna Godbersen Gossip 28
So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow. Anna Godbersen Betrayal 28
Heartstopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery. Anna Godbersen Envy 28
Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasnt visible beneath her fitted bodice. Anna Godbersen Heart 28
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear. Anna Godbersen Travel 25
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire. Anna Godbersen Desire 24
It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with except at just the moment when you require one most. Anna Godbersen Dance 23
A man is made in the roughandtumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination. Anna Godbersen Men 23

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