“Property has ever been a fluid concept--just ask the wife of the Wall Street speculator who writes her party invitations on Marie… — Anna Godbersen Wall street Copy Share Image
To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do. — Anna Godbersen Faces Copy Share Image
“What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere…” — 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 Cry Copy Share Image
They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to… — Anna Godbersen Every moment Copy Share Image
Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was… — Anna Godbersen Choices Copy Share Image
“Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was… — Anna Godbersen Alive Copy Share Image
Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“Teddy risked a look backward and nodded as he handed Henry his hat. The two men shook hands and then walked past… — 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 Dark Copy Share Image
“No- it was the best. Kind of joint where everyone checked their worries at the door. The beer was cold, the jokes… — Anna Godbersen Beer Copy Share Image
“I know it’s going to sound funny, but I know you’ve been hanging around with that Billie Marsh, so maybe it won’t… — Anna Godbersen Best man Copy Share Image
Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“...That kind of love is always changing, you can never plant your feet on it. Trust me there will be others. But… — Anna Godbersen Affairs 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 Dark Copy Share Image
THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions.… — Anna Godbersen Boys Copy Share Image
She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction… — Anna Godbersen Energy Copy Share Image
It seemed to her as though everything that was good and true had been blasted out of the world. All those things… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
The world is such a marvel-it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the… — Anna Godbersen Right thing Copy Share Image
Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home. — Anna Godbersen Father 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 Heart Copy Share Image
The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable… — Anna Godbersen Afterlife Copy Share Image
Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for… — Anna Godbersen Boys 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
So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest,… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could… — Anna Godbersen Books Copy Share Image
“Recurrent memories of Henry Schoonmaker were the most exciting thing to happen in her conscious mind these days.” — Anna Godbersen Conscious mind Copy Share Image
Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't… — Anna Godbersen Books Copy Share Image
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her… — Anna Godbersen Desire Copy Share Image
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong… — Anna Godbersen Books Copy Share Image
“I know that I might die but that seems a happier end than being without you and anyway it seems to me… — Anna Godbersen Danger Copy Share 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… — 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
“Travel always excited her--the strong and unfamiliar smells, the movement, the anxiety of arrival and departure times, she shouting of conductors, the… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she… — Anna Godbersen Female Copy Share Image
“Edith who had still not fully recovered from the debauchery at the Hayeses' had glaced at the letter before dinner but she… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
“Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of a torrential downpour, he was exquisitely real, and she, too,… — Anna Godbersen Downpour Copy Share Image
So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your… — Anna Godbersen Abandonment 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 Darkness Copy Share Image
A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her… — Anna Godbersen Company Copy Share Image
