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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.Anna Godbersen
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If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.Gregg Olsen
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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.Anna Godbersen
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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.Anna Godbersen
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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.Anna Godbersen
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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 there was the fury with herself–for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.Anna Godbersen
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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 hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.Anna Godbersen
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Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.Anna Godbersen
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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 YorkAnna Godbersen
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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.Anna Godbersen
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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.Anna Godbersen
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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 happened to them and found that she wanted to lie extravagantly.Anna Godbersen
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A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.Anna Godbersen
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Women readers aren`t turned on by nice heroes any more than male readers lust after heroines who are too virtuous. There should be at least a hint, maybe even a promise, of corruptibility.Sandra Brown
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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.Anna Godbersen
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Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.Anna Godbersen
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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 surroundings.Anna Godbersen
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She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.Anna Godbersen
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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.Anna Godbersen
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Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.Anna Godbersen
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The F word turns me on, she whispered. The F word? Food He threw back his head and laughed. It rumbled up out of his chest and felt so good it startled him. For the first time in years, his laughter was spontaneous. It wasn`t tinged with bitterness and cynicism.Sandra Brown
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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 couldn't possibly withstand any more.Anna Godbersen
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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.Anna Godbersen
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Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.Anna Godbersen
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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.Anna Godbersen
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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.Anna Godbersen
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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.Anna Godbersen
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Henry wondered not for the first time if her blood ran red or black.Anna Godbersen
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It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.Anna Godbersen
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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.Anna Godbersen
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Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and that one did not win by throwing temper tantrums--at least not outside of one's own home, which could result in vicious, spurious rumors.Anna Godbersen
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One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.Anna Godbersen
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It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.Joseph Epstein
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What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....Anna Godbersen
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The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.Anna Godbersen
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She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to KNOW it.Gregg Olsen
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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.Anna Godbersen