Quotes from Rumors

“So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“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, quote from Rumors

“Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“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.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes."
Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you."
"No.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“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, quote from Rumors

“So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“It seemed to her as though everything that was good and true had been blasted out of the world. All those things had been crushed destroyed made to disappear.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“What did it matter anyway that she was so much lovelier than the other girls when Henry was so blind.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“It had been too much for Edith to take and she had gone to her room so that her nieces wouldn't see her cry anymore.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“Recurrent memories of Henry Schoonmaker were the most exciting thing to happen in her conscious mind these days.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“Teddy risked a look backward and nodded as he handed Henry his hat. The two men shook hands and then walked past each other Teddy moving in the direction of Henry's room and Henry the hat pulled down over his face toward the Cutting carriage that was waiting by the curb.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“I love you.
He said it simply, quietly. He didn't say those words as she had imagined them said so many times by characters in novels. He didn't say them with desperation, with pleading, with futile rage or florid persuasion. He spoke without lasciviousness; he spoke only with the intention of being understood.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“It was disgraceful but also romantic enough to make Lina's heart turn.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“Property has ever been a fluid concept--just ask the wife of the Wall Street speculator who writes her party invitations on Marie Antoinette's escritoire.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“The two men moved to either side of his shoulders, close enough that Henry smelled the smell of men who did not spend their days looking after hereditary silver.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“She was realizing for the first time in her life what agony it was to experience such unquiet beneath an impeccable veneer.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

“but there was nothing like a little chest-beating to remind a man where his true feelings lay.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from Rumors

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