Anna Godbersen Quotes

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• It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

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  Gentleman, Moments, Acknowledge

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• Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

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  Jealousy, Heart, People

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• I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.

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  Moments, Ends, Savoring

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.57, Harper Collins

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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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  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Broken

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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 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.

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  Summer, Morning, Laughter

  Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.

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  Girl, Mom, Mother

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.73, Harper Collins

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

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  Best Friend, Crush, Sunset

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• All really interesting girls invent themselves.

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  Girl, Interesting, Really Interesting

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• As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.

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  Important, Important Days, Red

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• It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.

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  Thinking About You, Thinking, Craziest

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• She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

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  Morning, Energy, Purpose

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• Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

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  Diana, Novel, Felt

  "The Luxe (Luxe, Book 1)". Book by Anna Godbersen, November 20, 2007.

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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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  Men, Self, Needs

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• He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.

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  Running, Pain, Tired

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

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  Travel, Way, Ships

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• Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

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  Heart, Envy, Stopping

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

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  Life, Too Much, Dangerous

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

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  Talent, Forget

  Anna Godbersen (2011). “Beautiful Days”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Girl, New York, Cities

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

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  Summer, Wish, Would Be

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• 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.

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  Unexpected, Ends

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• To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.

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  Moving, Looks, Faces

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

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  "The Luxe". Book by Anna Godbersen, 2007.

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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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  Mother, Gay, Night

  Anna Godbersen (2011). “Beautiful Days”, p.21, Harper Collins

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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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  Girl, Love Is, Waste

  Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.41, Harper Collins

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