{"author":"Anna Godbersen","author_id":"Anna+Godbersen","total_quotes":81,"quotes":[{"text":"Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.","author":"Anna Godbersen","tags":["girl","love","lovers"],"id":1999,"author_id":"Anna+Godbersen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anna Godbersen","tags":["boys","luxe","manhattan","party","pretty-girls","scandals","secrets","white-lies"],"id":11840,"author_id":"Anna+Godbersen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anna Godbersen","tags":["1900s","dr-bertrand-legman-cooper","evolution","fathers-and-sons","sons"],"id":14557,"author_id":"Anna+Godbersen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anna Godbersen","tags":["beautiful","love-at-first-sight"],"id":34840,"author_id":"Anna+Godbersen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anna Godbersen","tags":["beauty","unaware"],"id":39565,"author_id":"Anna+Godbersen"},{"text":"The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...","author":"Anna Godbersen","tags":["beauty","colors","first-love","love","sunset"],"id":43837,"author_id":"Anna+Godbersen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anna Godbersen","tags":["cigarettes","people"],"id":44877,"author_id":"Anna+Godbersen"},{"text":"It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.","author":"Anna Godbersen","tags":["dawn","memories","season","summer"],"id":52494,"author_id":"Anna+Godbersen"},{"text":"Henry wondered not for the first time if her blood ran red or black.","author":"Anna Godbersen","tags":["hatred"],"id":59102,"author_id":"Anna+Godbersen"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anna Godbersen","tags":["anna-godbersen","envy","luxe","mgg","travel"],"id":59640,"author_id":"Anna+Godbersen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":81,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}