Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
Writer
Berkeley
California
Knew
Sound
Wooed
Desire
Brimming
Stills
Impatient
Still
Tone
Trying
Vulnerable
Tough
More quotes by Anna Godbersen
Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
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
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
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.
Anna Godbersen
To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.
Anna Godbersen
The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.
Anna Godbersen
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.
Anna Godbersen
Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.
Anna Godbersen
We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.
Anna Godbersen
Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
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
She considered herself unconventional.
Anna Godbersen
Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.
Anna Godbersen
Well, if you weren't flirting with him-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-who was he, and what did you want with him anyway? If you are so determined to bore me, I may just have to go home. Astrid sighed carelessly, What a shame, when I am wearing such a pretty dress.
Anna Godbersen
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.
Anna Godbersen
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.
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
Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.
Anna Godbersen
As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.
Anna Godbersen
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.
Anna Godbersen