Anna Godbersen Quotes
Top 64 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anna Godbersen
Anna Godbersen Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Diana wore a men's bowler with the intials H. W. S. sewn into the lining and an old French army coat.
Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.
Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York
Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York
Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.
Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.
Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.
Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today - you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.
Recurrent memories of Henry Schoonmaker were the most exciting thing to happen in her conscious mind these days.
So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.
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.
I tell you Schoonmaker she doesn't know what she has. That's the heart of it. She's like some wild creature who hasn't a clue the worth of its coat.
She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.
It had been too much for Edith to take and she had gone to her room so that her nieces wouldn't see her cry anymore.
I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.
She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.
In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.
She was realizing for the first time in her life what agony it was to experience such unquiet beneath an impeccable veneer.
When girls use the brightness of their eyes or the softness of their skin, they have an uncommon advantage in getting what they want.
A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.
What did it matter anyway that she was so much lovelier than the other girls when Henry was so blind.
She had believed him to be hers, time and again, but still she could not stay the feeling that he might at any moment slip through her fingers.
He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.
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.
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color
oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples ...
oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples ...
That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.
The girls of 1929.
The girls of 1929.
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.