It seemed to her as though everything that was good and true had been blasted out of the world. All those things had been crushed destroyed made to disappear. Anna Godbersen More Quotes by Anna Godbersen More Quotes From Anna Godbersen Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very clearly, of course, but he knew that sneaking into the bedroom window of his fiancee's little sister wasn't something he wanted to explain to his father. Sometimes, Henry reflected, being taken for a perpetual drunk was sort of convenient. Anna Godbersen drunk taken father That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet. Anna Godbersen left feet way Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry. Anna Godbersen sleep might rooms It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands. Anna Godbersen suffering blow hands Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive. Anna Godbersen regret alive weight 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 men world Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother. Anna Godbersen gay mother night You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes." Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you." "No. Anna Godbersen irony ceilings eye Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone stares at them, everyone blames. But those bad girls sleep soundly at night, Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright, While our good girls toss and they turn- They lay awake for those who will burn. Anna Godbersen girl sleep night There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale. Anna Godbersen scales envy pleasure The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be. Anna Godbersen Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else. Anna Godbersen fifth-avenue growing minutes A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society. Anna Godbersen waking husband may She considered herself unconventional. Anna Godbersen unconventional He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever. Anna Godbersen girl real heart THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899. Anna Godbersen party girl lying Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere. Anna Godbersen unconventional wells They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained. Anna Godbersen chiefs vocation 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. Anna Godbersen dark boys life 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. Anna Godbersen deflation race heart
