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Splendor (Luxe, #4) QUOTES

Splendor (Luxe, #4) QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

2 " 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. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

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

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

4 " It occurred to him, for the first time, that it did unflattering things to a person when affection was taken away from them. For there had been a time when she had seemed gorgeous, and fun, and all of her naughtiness had had for him a kind of irresistible pull. It was only after he decided he didn't want her anymore that she became a shrew, and obliterated his memory of the girl she used to be. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

5 " 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 "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

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

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

7 " 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. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

8 " 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. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

9 " Then she returned to her little bedroom, which had been the site of so many wild imaginings of all the places she would go, and all the people she would meet, and what the whole incredible arc of her life would look like once her biographer finally sat down to try and do it justice. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

10 " 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. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

11 " A veces los finales son en realidad comienzos. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

12 " She will be busy writing novels. As soon as she had has gotten far enough away from this frighteningly puritanical country, her mind will be set free, and she will be able to turn all of her observations in richly drawn characters and intricately themed stories.”
“But what will she eat, dear Grass?” Barnard leaned against the wall, his arms crossing his chest skeptically.
“Baguette and red wine, pure art, filthy air. Look at her, she is made of rose petals, and the world will take good care of her. And if it does not, we will have our hearts moved by such an exquisitely gorgeous tragedy. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

13 " Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of a torrential downpour, he was exquisitely real, and she, too, seemed content to go on sitting there forever. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

14 " Sometimes ends are in fact beginnings; beginnings ends. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

15 " The only way to leave forever is to do so as quickly as possible. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

16 " But I have never for a moment wavered in my belief that we would make each other very happy, and I swear to you, with my whole being, and no matter the circumstances, I do absolutely want you. "

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)

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

― Anna Godbersen , Splendor (Luxe, #4)