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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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She considered herself unconventional.

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Unconventional

Anna Godbersen (2009). “Rumors”, p.26, Harper Collins

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Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

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Guilt, Diana, Wrongdoing

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

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Sight, Dose

Anna Godbersen (2009). “Rumors”, p.16, Harper Collins

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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 consciences wake them in a fright, While our good girls toss and they turn- They lay awake for those who will burn.

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Girl, Sleep, Night

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

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Feet, Way, Left

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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.

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Eye, Ceilings, Irony

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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.

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Sleep, Might, Rooms

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A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.

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Order, Peers, Dry

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She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.

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Should Have, Faces, Villain

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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.

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Regret, Alive, Weight

Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, p.20, Harper Collins

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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.

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Husband, May, Waking

Anna Godbersen (2009). “Envy”, p.26, Harper Collins

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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.

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Life, Dark, Boys

Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.76, Harper Collins

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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.

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Girl, Real, Heart

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We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.

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Eye, Everyday Objects, Tree

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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 am wearing such a pretty dress.

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Home, Flirting, Voice

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

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Summer, Forget, Easy

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

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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.

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Blow, Hands, Suffering

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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.

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Believe, Heart, Men

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But I wanted to tell you before I left how completely abjectly sorry I am for all the pain I have caused you and that if I die you were the one true love of my life. By the time you read this I will be gone but please know I am still always at your side.... Yours forever Henery William Schoonmaker

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Sorry, Pain, Your Side

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What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.

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Men, Hair, Two

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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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Girl, Dream, Eye

Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.3, Harper Collins

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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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Girl, Boys, Cities

Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.2, Harper Collins

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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.

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Choices, Window, Difficult

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