Anna Godbersen Quotes

Don't go looking for boys in the darkThey will say pretty things thenleave you with scars.Do go looking for boys in the parkFor that is where the true gentlemen are.

~ Anna Godbersen

The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...

~ Anna Godbersen

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

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

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.

~ Anna Godbersen

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

He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever.

~ Anna Godbersen

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.

~ Anna Godbersen

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

It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

~ Anna Godbersen

Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.

~ Anna Godbersen

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

~ Anna Godbersen

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

~ Anna Godbersen

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.

~ Anna Godbersen

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

~ Anna Godbersen

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

It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.

~ Anna Godbersen

A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.

~ Anna Godbersen

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

~ Anna Godbersen

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

~ Anna Godbersen

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.

~ Anna Godbersen

The world is such a marvel-it 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

Darling, don't be silly, your whole future is ahead of you. All you have to do is go out there and ask for a part- something small and reasonable just to start with. From there, no one can stop you. Don't feel bad about anything you've done, and for God's sake, have fun.

~ Anna Godbersen

She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of two puppies who have just stumbled into their first puddle and not yet come to understand what has happened to them and found that she wanted to lie extravagantly.

~ Anna Godbersen

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

~ Anna Godbersen

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

~ Anna Godbersen

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

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

~ Anna Godbersen

Travel always excited her--the strong and unfamiliar smells, the movement, the anxiety of arrival and departure times, she shouting of conductors, the idea of her tired old self changed by ever new surroundings.

~ Anna Godbersen

We have glimpsed in it the future of high society: wealth without class.

~ Anna Godbersen

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

~ Anna Godbersen

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

Ah well that I can't 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 I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.

~ Anna Godbersen

That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.

~ Anna Godbersen

It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.

~ Anna Godbersen

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

It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.

~ Anna Godbersen

It occurred to him, for the first time, that it did unflattering things to a person when affection was taken away from them. For there had been a time when she had seemed gorgeous, and fun, and all of her naughtiness had had for him a kind of irresistible pull. It was only after he decided he didn't want her anymore that she became a shrew, and obliterated his memory of the girl she used to be.

~ Anna Godbersen

She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long lashes fluttered to touch her cheeks and then her eyes opened fully in his direction. Her small round mouth flexed in an immediate and knowing smile. That's the girl I'm going to marry Henry thought.

~ Anna Godbersen

Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.

~ Anna Godbersen