Anna Godbersen, Envy Quotes
It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.
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.
He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.
She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.
Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.
Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.
What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.
A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.
They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.
Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.
Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.
Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.
What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....
Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.
The world is such a marvel-it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.
Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.--- Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York
I tell you Schoonmaker she doesn't know what she has. That's the heart of it. She's like some wild creature who hasn't a clue the worth of its coat.