Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
Anna Godbersen
All really interesting girls invent themselves.
girls interesting
Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
guilt
Henry wondered not for the first time if her blood ran red or black.
hatred
What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.
jealousy
Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.
lust proud
It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.
new-york-city
Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame-Everyone stares at them, everyone blames. But those bad girls sleep soundly at night, Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright, While our good girls toss and they turn-They lay awake for those who will burn.
conscience virtue
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.
city new-york
Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
conscience
She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.
satisfaction energy
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
envy
envy flattery
How she wished she had Elizabeth to herself for a little so they could discuss what Henry's real intentions were and also how high and mighty Penelope had acted at lunch and what a tremendous insult it was that she'd come at all and did anyone really think she was beautiful with those oversize features anyway.
gossip
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 includes grave danger and the possibility of death is the mark of a man.
A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.
sisters relatives
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