32 quotes found
“One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.”
“Henry wondered not for the first time if her blood ran red or black.”
“The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.”
“What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....”
“Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.”
“Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.”
“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...”
“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”
“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.”
“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.”
“I tell you Schoonmaker she doesn't know what she has. That's the heart of it. She's like some wild creature who hasn't a clue the worth of its coat.”
“They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.”
“She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.”
“She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of two puppies who have just stumbled into their first puddle and not yet come to understand what has...”
“Travel always excited her--the strong and unfamiliar smells, the movement, the anxiety of arrival and departure times, she shouting of conductors, the idea of her tired old self changed by ever new...”
“A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.”
“Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.”
“She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.”
“I know that I might die but that seems a happier end than being without you and anyway it seems to me that looking in the face of hard things and still being able to move forward even when the end ...”
“Good night.' Diana summoned all the dignity that she could manage in her bedraggled state and began to move back up the beach. Her dress was soaked and her stockings dotted with sand and her heart ...”
“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.”
