Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
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
Night
Manage
Soaked
States
Dresses
Stockings
Back
Began
Withstand
Heart
Dignity
Diana
Good
Couldn
Sand
Move
Beach
Bedraggled
State
Possibly
Dotted
Moving
Dress
Summoned
More quotes by Anna Godbersen
They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.
Anna Godbersen
Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.
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
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.
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
Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.
Anna Godbersen
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.
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
THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899.
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
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
As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.
Anna Godbersen
You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.
Anna Godbersen
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.
Anna Godbersen
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.
Anna Godbersen
Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
Anna Godbersen
He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.
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
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
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
