“Don't go looking for boys in the dark
They will say pretty things then
leave you with scars.
Do go looking for boys in the park
For that is where the true gentlemen are.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“Girls," their mother interjected, "you must both stop being strange - it is unattractive. And don't forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color...”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“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, quote from The Luxe
“We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“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, quote from The Luxe
“A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very clearly, of course, but he knew that sneaking into the bedroom window of his fiancee's little sister wasn't something he wanted to explain to his father. Sometimes, Henry reflected, being taken for a perpetual drunk was sort of convenient.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“Sé cruel, hermanita, o el mundo te tratará con crueldad.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“Henry's worldly goal at the moment was drinking enough beer to be happy and forgetful.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“Don’t go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are. ––A SEAMSTRESS’S VERSES, 1898”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“Villains often come with pretty faces.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
“Do not go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.”
― Anna Godbersen, quote from The Luxe
Anna Godbersen
Born place: in Berkeley, California, The United States
Born date April 10, 1980
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“Maybe the midnight disease was like that, too. After a while you lost the ability to distinguish between your fictional and actual words; you confused yourself with your characters, and the random happenings of your life with the machinations of a plot.”
― Michael Chabon, quote from Wonder Boys
“Art is a meta-language, with the help of which people try to communicate with one another; to impart information about themselves and assimilate the experience of others. Again, this has not to do with practical advantage but with realising the idea of love, the meaning of which is in sacrifice: the very antithesis of pragmatism. I simply cannot believe that an artist can ever work only for the sake of 'self-expression.' Self-expression if meaningless unless it meets with a response. For the sake of creating a spiritual bond with others it can only be an agonising process, one that involves no practical gain: ultimately it is an act of sacrifice. But surely it cannot be worth the effort merely for the sake of hearing one's own echo?”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, quote from Sculpting in Time
“Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“The reason for a woman’s life,” said Sarai, “is the same as the reason for a man’s—so that she might have joy.”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from Sarah
“I suppose I needed to share it with her. I suppose I needed someone to forgive me.”
― Daniel Silva, quote from The Kill Artist
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