Anna Godbersen Quotes

Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.

But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.

Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.

There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for making promises to her-all that was left for him was to act.

She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.

A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

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.

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.

The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

Don't go looking for boys in the darkThey will say pretty things thenleave you with scars.Do go looking for boys in the parkFor that is where the true gentlemen are.

The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...

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.

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high, ' he said.

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.

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

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.

Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.

It was disgraceful but also romantic enough to make Lina's heart turn.

Henry wondered not for the first time if her blood ran red or black.

It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's.

She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she'd never thought of, to show her new points of view.

One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.

What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....

Do not go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.