Quotes by Anna Godbersen

About Anna Godbersen:

Anna Godbersen is an American writer. She is the author of the series The Luxe, with The Luxe, the first book in the series, being her debut novel. The first book in her new series, Bright Young Things, was released on October 12, 2010.
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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.

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You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

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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.

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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 him anyway?" "If you are so determined to bore me, I may just have to go home." Astrid sighed carelessly, "What a shame, when I...

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In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

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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.

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

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It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

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Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.

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Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.

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All really interesting girls invent themselves.

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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...

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Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

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She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long lashes fluttered to touch her cheeks and then her eyes opened fully in his direction. Her small round mouth flexed in an immediate and know...

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She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

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

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So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

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Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

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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 conscience...

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It had been too much for Edith to take and she had gone to her room so that her nieces wouldn't see her cry anymore.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnna Godbersen
  • DescriptionAmerican qriter
  • BornApril 10, 1980
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter