83 quotes found
“One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.”
“All really interesting girls invent themselves.”
“Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.”
“Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.”
“There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.”
“Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.”
“Don't go looking for boys in the darkThey will say pretty things thenleave you with scars.Do go looking for boys in the parkFor that is where the true gentlemen are.”
“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 the...”
“She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.”
“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 hou...”
“Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.”
“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 t...”
“Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.--- Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 ...”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
“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...”
“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.”
“She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.”
“They will stop calling brides beautiful after todayyou have simply set the standard too high,' he said.”
