Beautiful Days Quotes

“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.”
― Anna Godbersen, Beautiful Days

“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.”
― Anna Godbersen, Beautiful Days

“You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.”
― Anna Godbersen, Beautiful Days

“I know it’s going to sound funny, but I know you’ve been hanging around with that Billie Marsh, so maybe it won’t be strange after all. Would you be my best man—or, I don’t know, my best lady?”
― Anna Godbersen, Beautiful Days

“The day had been beautifully long, but it was going to be a longer night.”
― Anna Godbersen, Beautiful Days

“There would be no crying- that was for children, and she was now the fiancee of a man who did dangerous and exciting things late at night. She could not act like a child. But oh, how it stabbed at her, to be left like this. To have been prepared to give herself completely and to be rejected.”
― Anna Godbersen, Beautiful Days