Boys Quote by Anna Godbersen

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

“A girl in a yellow dress on a sunny day with nothing inside her but darkness”

— Sara Craven

“The moment I stepped out the front door I was faced again with Manhattan. There it was, oh splendid ship of concrete and steel,…

— Anonymous

“Summer sticks to her skirt sumptuously, in the shiny gray fabric hanging loosely from her curves. Her chestnut eyes, apparently hidden from strangers; her…

— Zack Love

“Young men seemed to collect by her side, ready with drinks and conversation. She tanned quickly and easily, her delicate limbs oiled and gleaming.…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“The bright hours when the young rebelled against the descending sun had to give way to twenty-four-hour periods called “days” that were named as…

— Maya Angelou

For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Nightclub City tells the behind-the-scenes story of Manhattan's glamorous nightlife at its peak. Packed with colorful characters, terrific original research, and an unusually accessible…

— Debby Applegate

“Through the dark night chasing the morning light That headlight streaming white through the night”

— Richard L. Ratliff

“If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms over her…

— Elizabeth Berg

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to…

— Candace Bushnell