She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long lashes fluttered to touch her cheeks and then her eyes opened fully in his direction. Her small round mouth flexed in an immediate and knowing smile. That's the girl I'm going to marry Henry thought.
Anna Godbersen
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.
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That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.
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It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.
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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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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.
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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.
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It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.
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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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The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.
Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.
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Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.
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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.
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Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.
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She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.
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