Anna Godbersen Quotes - Page 2

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
Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.
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
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
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
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
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
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.
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
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
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...
Anna Godbersen
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