Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
pamela hamilton
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“Three months of moonlit nights and candlelit dinners under the starry Manhattan sky, of high times with friends and galas with acquaintances, of breakfasts at dawn and outings on Sunday afternoons, and evening strolls in Central Park where they rode the carousel and stole kisses in the Belvedere Castle like teenagers too young for love.”
“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 early days of springtime in New York were reliably fickle with heat rising and cool wind blowing, with shadows and rain and shimmering sunlight falling on blooms, the city one step ahead and setting the rhythm for residents trying to keep its pace. In a topsy-turvy continuous motion, it reminded them they’d somersault and skid and finally turn in the direction they ought to go.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In the empty halls of the castle now abandoned and silenced by time, they waltzed cheek to cheek over the ancient floor of dust with unknown stories buried deep in the soil below.”
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