Lady Be Good Lib/E: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
Pamela L Hamilton
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You know of course that I am happier than I’ve ever been and will remain so if it’s just the two of us forevermore.” She tried pushing away the thought of Clare’s remark: “Forevermore is shorter than you think.”
“You can be so courageous when you’re encouraging others to step into the fire.”
“What did your husband do to make you leave him?” “He breathed.”
“The rest of us have to play along with God’s little game of Russian roulette, His eternal lesson to live it up while you can. And far be it for me to turn away from God—let’s get a drink.”
“The more you fear something, the more likely it is to happen.”
“Someone has to unbutton the stuffed shirts of the beau monde.”
“She had seen the faces of shattered dreams, the zippy Ziegfeld girls, the doll-faced divorcées, the wellborn wives in opulent ivory towers, knocked down and knocked right out.”
“Oh good, the Algonquin Twit isn’t here.”
“Men who once were titans of business now were unrecognizable to their friends, friends that found refuge at their homes in Newport and the Gold Coast, places with vodka and rare art and pretty dresses.”
“It was that magic of youth, hard to contain and impossible to recapture in midlife when one looks back wistfully, yearning to ignite that part of them that was burning out like a flickering candle in ceaseless summer storms.”
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