Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things
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"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."
"It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer."
"Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings."
"Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time."
"All really interesting girls invent themselves."
"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."
"It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's."
"Well, if you weren't flirting with him"-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-"who was he, and what did you want with him anyway?""If you are so determined to bore me, I may just have to go home." Astrid sighed carelessly, "What a shame, when I am wearing such a pretty dress."