Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.
Anna GodbersenTag: imagination dangerous
It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.
Anna GodbersenHer life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.
Anna GodbersenTag: life steel-trap
Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very clearly, of course, but he knew that sneaking into the bedroom window of his fiancee's little sister wasn't something he wanted to explain to his father. Sometimes, Henry reflected, being taken for a perpetual drunk was sort of convenient.
Anna GodbersenTag: drunk convenient fiancee
It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.
Anna GodbersenTag: disillusionment pain falsehood fury
Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enough to bury her alive.
Anna GodbersenTag: regret
She should have know that villains often come with pretty faces.
Anna GodbersenTag: villains
A lady must retain always her composure. Even in a rainstorm, she must appear joyous and dry. When she loses her composure, then the respect of her peers and her staff will follow in short order.
Anna GodbersenTag: composure
She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.
Anna GodbersenRecurrent memories of Henry Schoonmaker were the most exciting thing to happen in her conscious mind these days.
Anna GodbersenTag: diana henry-schoonmaker
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