Top 90 Anna Godbersen Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Anna Godbersen

52. “Darling, don’t be silly, your whole future is ahead of you. All you have to do is go out there and ask for a part- something small and reasonable just to start with. From there, no one can stop you. Don’t feel bad about anything you’ve done, and for God’s sake, have fun.”

— Anna Godbersen

53. “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

54. “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.”

— Anna Godbersen

55. “Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.”

— Anna Godbersen

56. “She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.”

— Anna Godbersen

57. “Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.”

— Anna Godbersen

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

— Anna Godbersen

59. “Sometimes ends are in fact beginnings; beginnings ends.”

— Anna Godbersen

60. “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

61. “One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.”

— Anna Godbersen

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

— Anna Godbersen

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

— Anna Godbersen

64. “That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.”

— Anna Godbersen

65. “The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color...”

— Anna Godbersen

66. “They will stop calling brides beautiful after today – you have simply set the standard too high,′ he said.”

— Anna Godbersen

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

— Anna Godbersen

68. “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

69. “Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn’t be.”

— Anna Godbersen

70. “The two men moved to either side of his shoulders, close enough that Henry smelled the smell of men who did not spend their days looking after hereditary silver.”

— Anna Godbersen

71. “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.”

— Anna Godbersen

72. “No- it was the best. Kind of joint where everyone checked their worries at the door. The beer was cold, the jokes came easy, we could smell the ocean, and everyone was always happy to be there.”

— Anna Godbersen

73. “After Henry’s treatment of her she wasn’t sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.”

— Anna Godbersen

74. “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

75. “It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed – not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else’s.”

— Anna Godbersen

76. “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

77. “It is a fact of big cities that one girl’s darkest how is always another’s moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.”

— Anna Godbersen

78. “I know it’s going to sound funny, but I know you’ve been hanging around with that Billie Marsh, so maybe it won’t be strange after all. Would you be my best man – or, I don’t know, my best lady?”

— Anna Godbersen

79. “Henry’s worldly goal at the moment was drinking enough beer to be happy and forgetful.”

— Anna Godbersen

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

— Anna Godbersen

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

— Anna Godbersen

82. “Ah well that I can’t tell you.” Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. “Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I’ll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.”

— Anna Godbersen

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

— Anna Godbersen

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

— Anna Godbersen

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

— Anna Godbersen

86. “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

87. “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

88. “Villains often come with pretty faces.”

— Anna Godbersen

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

92. “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

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

— Anna Godbersen

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

— Anna Godbersen