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“All really interesting girls invent themselves.”
“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”
“Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.”
“It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's.”
“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.”
“In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.”
“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...”
“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 ho...”
“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 o...”
