Anna Godbersen
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.Collection: Gentleman
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.Collection: Jealousy
I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.Collection: Moments
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.Collection: Heartbreak
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.Collection: Summer
Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.Collection: Girl
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.Collection: Best Friend
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.Collection: Morning
It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.Collection: Thinking About You
As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.Collection: Important
All really interesting girls invent themselves.Collection: Girl
Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.Collection: Diana
You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Running
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.Collection: Travel
Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.Collection: Heart
Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.Collection: Life
Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.Collection: Talent
It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.Collection: Girl
He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.Collection: Summer
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.Collection: Unexpected
To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Trials
Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.Collection: Guilt
She considered herself unconventional.Collection: Unconventional
The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Sleep
That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.Collection: Feet
You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes." Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you." "No.Collection: Eye
Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone stares at them, everyone blames. But those bad girls sleep soundly at night, Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright, While our good girls toss and they turn- They lay awake for those who will burn.Collection: Girl
She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.Collection: Sight
A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.Collection: Order
But I wanted to tell you before I left how completely abjectly sorry I am for all the pain I have caused you and that if I die you were the one true love of my life. By the time you read this I will be gone but please know I am still always at your side.... Yours forever Henery William SchoonmakerCollection: Sorry
Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.Collection: Girl
Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.Collection: Steel
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.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Beach
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.Collection: Play
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 couldn't possibly withstand any more.Collection: Good Night
A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.Collection: Men
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.Collection: New York
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.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Strong
Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Choices
It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.Collection: Winning
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.Collection: Envy
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.Collection: Girl