What did it matter anyway that she was so much lovelier than the other girls when Henry was so blind.
Anna GodbersenStichwörter: penelope
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.
Anna GodbersenStichwörter: life
Good girls hold their heads high by daylight,
Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites,
While bad girls slink along in their shame-
Everyone stares at them, everyone blames.
But those bad girls sleep soundly at night,
Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright,
While our good girls toss and they turn-
They lay awake for those who will burn.
Stichwörter: virtue conscience bad-girls good-girls
You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes."
Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you."
"No.
Stichwörter: love
That was the way love was, she guessed-it left you always unsteady on your feet.
Anna GodbersenIt 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.
Anna GodbersenTeddy risked a look backward and nodded as he handed Henry his hat. The two men shook hands and then walked past each other Teddy moving in the direction of Henry's room and Henry the hat pulled down over his face toward the Cutting carriage that was waiting by the curb.
Anna GodbersenShe felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.
Anna GodbersenStichwörter: beauty
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.
Anna GodbersenStichwörter: beauty compliment bride
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone.
Anna GodbersenStichwörter: desire lovely wooing
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