Darling, don’t be silly, your whole future is ahead of you. All you have to do is go out there and ask for a part- something small and reasonable just to start with. From there,...

I’ve always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we’ll have.

The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color — oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples…

Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl’s time.

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.

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.

I can’t imagine what my life was before. I can’t imagine ever being without you for very long again.

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

Edith who had still not fully recovered from the debauchery at the Hayeses’ had glaced at the letter before dinner but she apparently lacked the energy to pry. “Oh to be young as you ”...

The headiest loves were the loves that couldn’t be.

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.

Henry wondered not for the first time if her blood ran red or black.

It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to challenge her, to tell her about things she’d never thought of, to show...

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.

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...

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

It’s the craziest thing, but I can’t stop thinking about you.

It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed – not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else’s.

Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh...

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 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...

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.

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...

Elizabeth who was only partially visible to her stared out the window very much awake as though she were contemplating the end of man.

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.

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...

Well, if you weren’t flirting with him”-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-“who was he, and what did you want with him anyway?””If you are so determined to bore me, I may just have...

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.

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...

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

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...

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

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,...

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...

Living too much in one’s head can be dangerous.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

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

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.

He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was...

It was disgraceful but also romantic enough to make Lina’s heart turn.

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...

Interesting” people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.

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...

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.