Quote

There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for making promises to her-all that was left for him was to act.

Anna Godbersen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
Writer
Berkeley
California
Time
Passed
Life
Plenty
Promise
Making
Use
Left
Back
Would
Promises

More quotes by Anna Godbersen

Image
She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long lashes fluttered to touch her cheeks and then her eyes opened fully in his direction. Her small round mouth flexed in an immediate and knowing smile. That's the girl I'm going to marry Henry thought.
Anna Godbersen
Image
Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
Anna Godbersen
Image
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.
Anna Godbersen
Image
All really interesting girls invent themselves.
Anna Godbersen
Image
Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.
Anna Godbersen
Image
Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.
Anna Godbersen
Image
Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.
Anna Godbersen
Image
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
Image
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
Image
What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.
Anna Godbersen
Image
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.
Anna Godbersen
Image
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.
Anna Godbersen
Image
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.
Anna Godbersen
Image
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
Image
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.
Anna Godbersen
Image
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
Anna Godbersen
Image
It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.
Anna Godbersen
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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