157 Quotes by Anna Godbersen

As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.

THE LUXE IS . . .Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn.Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions.White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.This is Manhattan in 1899.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

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.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

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.

All really interesting girls invent themselves.

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.

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.