Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere. — Anna Godbersen Unconventional Copy Share Image
She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit. — Anna Godbersen Idea 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 Book Copy Share Image
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said. — Anna Godbersen Beautiful 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
There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time… — Anna Godbersen Heart Copy Share Image
That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The… — Anna Godbersen Big cities Copy Share Image
“What did it matter anyway that she was so much lovelier than the other girls when Henry was so blind.” — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination. — Anna Godbersen Imagination Copy Share Image
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear. — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in… — Anna Godbersen Business 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 Beach Copy Share Image
“But I wanted to tell you before I left how completely abjectly sorry I am for all the pain I have caused… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in… — 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
Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms:… — Anna Godbersen Boys Copy Share Image
“It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's.” — Anna Godbersen Eyes Copy Share Image
“Henry's worldly goal at the moment was drinking enough beer to be happy and forgetful.” — Anna Godbersen Beer Copy Share Image
Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt… — Anna Godbersen Beach 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
It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have. — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean. — Anna Godbersen Allies Copy Share Image
What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less… — 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 Deflation 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
“The two men moved to either side of his shoulders, close enough that Henry smelled the smell of men who did not… — Anna Godbersen Smell Copy Share 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… — Anna Godbersen Big cities Copy Share Image
But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time. — Anna Godbersen Moments Copy Share Image
She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too. — Anna Godbersen Beauty Copy Share Image
“Diana wore a men's bowler with the intials H. W. S. sewn into the lining and an old French army coat.” — Anna Godbersen Amazing Copy Share 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 Family Copy Share Image
The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples... — Anna Godbersen Best friend Copy Share Image
