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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.

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn’t be.
– Anna Godbersen

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  2. Diana knew it wouldn’t be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you. – Anna Godbersen
  3. It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. – Anna Godbersen
  4. She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn’t notice the difference too. – Anna Godbersen
  5. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  6. 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. – Anna Godbersen
  7. They will stop calling brides beautiful after today-”you have simply set the standard too high,’ he said. – Anna Godbersen
  8. 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
  9. Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father’s home. – Anna Godbersen
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  12. 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
  13. Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear. – Anna Godbersen
  14. We have glimpsed in it the future of high society: wealth without class. – Anna Godbersen
  15. It’s the craziest thing, but I can’t stop thinking about you. – Anna Godbersen
  16. 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
  17. Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl’s time. – Anna Godbersen
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  20. I can’t imagine what my life was before. I can’t imagine ever being without you for very long again. – Anna Godbersen
  21. Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive. – Anna Godbersen
  22. 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
  23. Henry wondered not for the first time if her blood ran red or black. – Anna Godbersen
  24. It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed – not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else’s. – Anna Godbersen
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  26. He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. – Augustine of Hippo
  27. Hating yourself is like hating what God loves. God loves you, so love yourself and love what God loves. – Israelmore Ayivor
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  37. We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures. – Orhan Pamuk
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  39. Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned. – Susan Coolidge
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