Anna Godbersen Quotes

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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.

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

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

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

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It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.

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

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They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained...

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

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