Quote

But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.

Anna Godbersen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
Writer
Berkeley
California
Moment
Moments
Time
Smiles
Tremendous
False
Realized
Waste

More quotes by Anna Godbersen

Image
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
Image
Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.
Anna Godbersen
Image
I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.
Anna Godbersen
Image
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
Image
Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.
Anna Godbersen
Image
Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.
Anna Godbersen
Image
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.
Anna Godbersen
Image
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
Image
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
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
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
Image
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.
Anna Godbersen
Image
Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.
Anna Godbersen
Image
The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.
Anna Godbersen
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
Anna Godbersen
Image
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
Image
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.
Anna Godbersen
Image
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