She would mend her broken heart, only to find it broke easily again. Different men loved differently, she would discover, and every one would leave her a little older, a little wiser, and with more feeling to translate into the pages of her notebooks.

— Anna Godbersen

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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.

— Anna Godbersen

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.

— Anna Godbersen

It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.

— Anna Godbersen

Sometimes ends are in fact beginnings; beginnings ends.

— Anna Godbersen

We have glimpsed in it the future of high society: wealth without class.

— Anna Godbersen

The best heroines, she’d always believed, took their fate into their own hands.

— Anna Godbersen

Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and that one did not win by throwing temper tantrums – at least not outside of one’s own home, which could result in vicious, spurious rumors.

— Anna Godbersen

Travel always excited her – the strong and unfamiliar smells, the movement, the anxiety of arrival and departure times, she shouting of conductors, the idea of her tired old self changed by ever new surroundings.

— Anna Godbersen

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

— Anna Godbersen

One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.

— Anna Godbersen

Nothing was really so bad, if you were brave enough to confront it.

— Anna Godbersen

Elizabeth had followed her heart, and no one ever regrets that.

— Anna Godbersen

She was realizing for the first time in her life what agony it was to experience such unquiet beneath an impeccable veneer.

— Anna Godbersen

It occurred to him, for the first time, that it did unflattering things to a person when affection was taken away from them. For there had been a time when she had seemed gorgeous, and fun, and all of her naughtiness had had for him a kind of irresistible pull. It was only after he decided he didn’t want her anymore that she became a shrew, and obliterated his memory of the girl she used to be.

— Anna Godbersen

Villains often come with pretty faces.

— Anna Godbersen

She would mend her broken heart, only to find it broke easily again. Different men loved differently, she would discover, and every one would leave her a little older, a little wiser, and with more feeling to translate into the pages of her notebooks.

— Anna Godbersen

But I have never for a moment wavered in my belief that we would make each other very happy, and I swear to you, with my whole being, and no matter the circumstances, I do absolutely want you.

— Anna Godbersen

Elizabeth realized with sadness how easy everything would be if she simply did not exist.

— Anna Godbersen

The only way to leave forever is to do so as quickly as possible.

— Anna Godbersen

What else would she have to go through, she wondered, to fill up the pages of the story of her life? That volume was already very crammed.

— Anna Godbersen
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