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Anna Godbersen

Anna Godbersen Books

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Anna Godbersen is an American author known for her young adult literature. Born on April 10, 1980, she graduated from Columbia University. Godbersen's works are typically set in New York City, depicting the stories of teenagers from the upper class.

Envy

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The Luxe

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Bright Young Things

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“It was disgraceful but also romantic enough to make Lina's heart turn.”

Romantic Disgraceful

Book:Rumors

Source: Rumors

“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 what has happened to them and found that she wanted to lie extravagantly.”

Love Sadness Confusion Love Lost

Book:Envy

Source: Envy

“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.”

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Book:The Luxe

Source: The Luxe

“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 her new points of view.”

Love Inspirational Romance Girl Relationships Boys Couple Letting Go Point Of View Devotion Moving On New York City Teen Challenge New More

Book:Beautiful Days

Source: Beautiful Days

“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.”

Book:Envy

Source: Envy

“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.”

Book:Rumors

Source: Rumors

“Elizabeth realized with sadness how easy everything would be if she simply did not exist.”

Existence Sad Depression Existential Suicidal Thoughts

Book:The Luxe

Source: The Luxe

“Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enough to bury her alive.”

Book:The Luxe

Source: The Luxe

“Our era has produced many great men--- robber barons, masters of innovation, beast of business---whose staggering wealth, incomparable ruthlessness and personal legends would seem to prove they are dominant species but then one has a look at their son, and doubts the theory of evolution entirely. -DR. Bertrand Legmam Cooper, Problems of Science and Society, Posted by One Who Has Known Both, 1900”

Evolution Fathers And Sons Sons 1900s Dr Bertrand Legman Cooper

Book:Splendor

Source: Splendor

“Slowly the sky turned from the color of cornflower to that of hyacinth, and the Ferris wheel at Coney Island appeared like a ring of diamonds against the twilight. New York-that city made of canyons between tall buildings, and ornate houses filled with glittering things that might trap a girl forever-was nothing more than a few dots on an infinite landscape. The atmosphere was crystalline and afforded her a perfect view. Only from this place was she able to see how limited the city was, after everything, and how wide open the world could all of a sudden become.”

New York New York City Splendor Anna Godbersen

Book:Splendor

Source: Splendor

“Villains often come with pretty faces.”

Mgg Villians Anna Godbersen Luxe The Luxe

Book:The Luxe

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“The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.”

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Book:Envy

Source: Envy

“Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and that one did not win by throwing temper tantrums--at least not outside of one's own home, which could result in vicious, spurious rumors.”

Winning Envy Mgg Anger Management Anna Godbersen Luxe

Book:Envy

Source: Envy

“One did not win by throwing temper tantrums.”

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Book:Envy

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“She would mend her broken heart, only to find it broke easily again. Different men loved differently, she would discover, and every one would leave her a little older, a little wiser, and with more feeling to translate into the pages of her notebooks.”

Love Broken Heart Splendor Mgg Anna Godbersen

Book:Splendor

Source: Splendor

“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.”

Travel Envy Mgg Anna Godbersen Luxe

Book:Envy

Source: Envy

“What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....”

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Book:Envy

Source: Envy

“From far away, on a clear day, she saw how all those mighty mansions were only temporary delusions, and how fashion would march on, and the chateaus and palazzos of American merchants would fall to the wrecking ball so that department stores might rise above.”

Splendor Anna Godbersen

Author:Anna Godbersen

“Look at her, she is made of rose petals, the world will take good care of her.”

Book:Splendor

Source: Splendor

“She saw now that he was like an illusionist who captivated women with a little sleight of hand and once she had seen the mechanism it had lost all power for her.”

Book:Envy

Source: Envy

“What else would she have to go through, she wondered, to fill up the pages of the story of her life? That volume was already very crammed.”

Anguish World Weary

Book:Envy

Source: Envy

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.”

Dance Universal Truths Gentlemen Paraphrased

Book:Envy

Source: Envy

“It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.”

Moments Facts Bigs Girl Cities New York Shining Triumph Big Cities

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

Pleasure Mass Envy Scales Envied

Book:The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

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

Chiefs Vocation

Book:The Luxe

Source: The Luxe

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

Important Red Important Days

Author:Anna Godbersen

“Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.”

Wells Unconventional

Book:The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

“She considered herself unconventional.”

Book:Rumors

Source: 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.”

Guilt Wrongdoing Diana

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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.”

Ifs World Stills Salvation Trials Right Thing

Author:Anna Godbersen

“It's the craziest thing, but I can't stop thinking about you.”

Thinking I Can Thinking About You Craziest

Author:Anna Godbersen

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

Author:Anna Godbersen

“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, stronger each time.”

Giving Littles Running Pain Mystery Stronger Tired Solve Envy Pursued

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“The headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.”

Author:Anna Godbersen

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

Growing Minutes Sat Fifth Avenues Mansions Growing Older Parlor Fifth Avenue

Author:Anna Godbersen

“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.”

May Young Hours Company Position Husband Members Fellows Waking Young Women Delightful Darling Exclusion Family Members

Book:Envy

Source: Envy

“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.”

Heart Real Moments Eye Girl Dark Existence Forever Months Goes On Sitting Dark Eyes

Author:Anna Godbersen

“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.”

Lying Girl Dark White Party Secret Boys Dangerous Dresses Intention Dawn Irresistible Manhattan Pretty Girl Mischievous Scandalous White Lie Dark Secrets

Book:The Luxe

Source: The Luxe

“To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.”

Looks Hard Faces Moving Moving Forward Keep Moving Keep Moving Forward Hard Things

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“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.”

Firsts Love Is Color Crush Sunset First Love Orange Best Friend Love Is Like Time And Love Beautiful Sunset

Book:The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

“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.”

Life Dark Boys Gentleman Parks Scar Pretty Things True Gentleman

Book:The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

“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.”

Ifs Two Ends Would Be Mother Girl Forget Strange Mom Hats Unattractive Freckles

Book:The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

“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.”

May Eye Faces Sin Cases Tree Movement Objects Strange Messages Window Everyday Tricks Branches Tree Branches Everyday Objects

Author:Anna Godbersen

“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.”

Made Passing Passings Flaws Afterlife Impeccable

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“Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.”

Heart Form Envy Stopping Flattery

Book:The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

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

Ends Moments Savoring

Book:The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

Source: The Luxe Complete Collection: The Luxe, Rumors, Envy, Splendor

“Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.”

Felt Novel Diana

Author:Anna Godbersen

“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.”

Made Left Water Tears Broken Heartbreak Mouths Betrayal Desert Dry Warmth Hollow Abandonment Left Alone Dusk Betrayed Love

Author:Anna Godbersen

“It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.”

Moments Acknowledge Gentleman

Author:Anna Godbersen

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

Girl Love Is Lovers Terrible Waste

Book:Bright Young Things

Source: Bright Young Things

About the Author

Born: April 10, 1980
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 105

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