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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
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Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
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Berkeley
California
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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.
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That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Don't 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.
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After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.
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You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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