“The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.” — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see. — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose. — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“... and in that part of the world the darkness could go on and on forever, as though there would never be… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“She saw now that he was like an illusionist who captivated women with a little sleight of hand and once she had… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and that one did… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“She had believed him to be hers, time and again, but still she could not stay the feeling that he might at… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“It had been too much for Edith to take and she had gone to her room so that her nieces wouldn't see… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
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… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
“What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere…” — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
“It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's.” — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples... — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
“It is often advantageous to forget. Forget your wincing humiliations, forget life's blows, and get on. For blocks in every direction, down every street… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ... — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time. — Anna Godbersen Copy Share
