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• 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.

  Anna Godbersen

  Trials, World, Salvation

  Touchstones Magazine, April 2014.

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• Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

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  Steel, Traps, Charm

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Unexpected, Ends

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• 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.

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  Mother, Gay, Night

  Anna Godbersen (2011). “Beautiful Days”, p.21, Harper Collins

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

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  Differences, Felt

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• 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.

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  Girl, Eye, Heart

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• Henry turned his hat in his hands but went on looking at Diana in a way that made her want to crawl into his arms and stay there forever.

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  Hands, Forever, Want

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Faces, Opinion

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• She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.

  Anna Godbersen

  Ideas, Suits, No Idea

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• They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

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  Beautiful, Calling, Today

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• 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.

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  World, Disappear, Made

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• She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.

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  Desire, Trying, Sound

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• 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.

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  Afterlife, Flaws, Made

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• A young lady's most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

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  Allies, Sometimes, Natural

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

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  Summer, Forget, Easy

  Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Eye, Everyday Objects, Tree

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• 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 with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.

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  Husband, May, Waking

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “Envy”, p.26, Harper Collins

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

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  Wrongdoing

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• 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 exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever.

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  Girl, Real, Heart

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• 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 to go home." Astrid sighed carelessly, "What a shame, when I am wearing such a pretty dress.

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  Home, Flirting, Voice

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• 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.

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  Father, Taken, Drunk

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• 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 almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.

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  Blow, Hands, Suffering

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• 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.

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  Regret, Alive, Weight

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Life, Dark, Boys

  Anna Godbersen (2014). “The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor”, p.76, Harper Collins

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• They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.

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  Chiefs, Vocation

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, p.13, Harper Collins

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