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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.

Diana wore a men's bowler with the intials H. W. S. sewn into the lining and an old French army coat.

Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.
Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.

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

We have glimpsed in it the future of high society: wealth without class.

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

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

Elizabeth had followed her heart, and no one ever regrets that.

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

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

Henry's worldly goal at the moment was drinking enough beer to be happy and forgetful.

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.

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

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

Recurrent memories of Henry Schoonmaker were the most exciting thing to happen in her conscious mind these days.

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

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.

Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

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

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

...she considered herself unconventional...

For the lesson was clear-one did not poke around at night, not unless one wanted to see ghosts.

But there was nothing like a little chest-beating to remind a man where his true feelings lay.

That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.

You don't need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.

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

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

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.

A smiling friend was a true friend.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

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.

She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.

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

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

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

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

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

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

She was realizing for the first time in her life what agony it was to experience such unquiet beneath an impeccable veneer.

When girls use the brightness of their eyes or the softness of their skin, they have an uncommon advantage in getting what they want.

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

I am a good leader; I know how to explain men to themselves.

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

What did it matter anyway that she was so much lovelier than the other girls when Henry was so blind.

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

All really interesting girls invent themselves.

She had believed him to be hers, time and again, but still she could not stay the feeling that he might at any moment slip through her fingers.

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

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

Sometimes ends are in fact beginnings; beginnings ends.

He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

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

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

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.

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

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

That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.
The girls of 1929.

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.

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

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

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