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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.


Anna Godbersen

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The boys rolled ...
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Or bed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, g...
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Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of...
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Love doesn't make the world go round
Sex makes it spin for a second or two
I...
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Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites,...
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I tell them that all marriages are ...
ANN LANDERS Anna: Ash, I don't have anything planned with my Mother... She's dead.

Ashley: What?
JESSI KIRBY First:
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Then:
“You’re...
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"I want to talk ...
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‘I’ve been aware of the pr...
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responsibility is to take down its bright,...
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DAVE SYLVESTER If only you could talk to girls in equations.”
There was a long silence, and then, eyes trai...
LEIGH BARDUGO Good God, you don’t give up.”
“Nope.”
I laughed, couldn’t help it, and his
...
J. LYNN I open my eyes.
I want to know:
what is in the abyss of a kiss?
Are stars born in t...
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"You shouldn't follow dreams...
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"I was just wondering," he said,"about the significance of your canine...
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SARAH DESSEN In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through ...
ANNA GODBERSEN Does he tell you that you’re all
he thinks about? Does he tell you that he lives for you?
MILA GRAY Thank you,” she says and yanks the pull-tab off the soda can. She takes a big sip and aaahs. Then ...
CAPRICE CRANE Thinking of a series of dreams
Where the time and the tempo fly
And there's no exit in any...
BOB DYLAN Tell me what it is that you are hiding behind your eyes.
Tell me of the pain, so I can make it ...
JOSé N. HARRIS You let me set the water in the shower, and followed me into the booth to stand there with me under ...
JULIO ALEXI GENAO I was only kidding about the hundred," she says.

oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Actually, I came because I have a last-minute invitation. My friend Erika Gill is having a big party...
ELIZABETH CHANDLER This is for girls who have the tendency to stay up at night listening to music that reminds them of ...
ZAYN MALIK But where do you live mostly now?"
With the lost boys."
Who are they?"
They are the c...
J.M. BARRIE I want to see the front of you.”
“That’s what all the girls say.”
“Do you expect...
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IRWIN SHAW My eyes constantly seek
the rainbow of my dreams
and I sometimes fail
to be grateful...
VIJAYA GOWRISANKAR M: Don't go there. Besides, you want to tell me about this prom date? Hmm?

J: He's just a...
KELLY BINGHAM M: Don't go there. Besides, you want to tell me about this prom date? Hmm?

J: He's just a...
KELLY BINGHAM Dream!
Forge yourself and rise
Out of your mind and into others.
Men, be women.
...
CLIVE BARKER I tell a lot of girls not to have the surgery. Some coaches will pull the scholarships of injured pl...
LONNIE BARTLEY Honestly," I said.
What?"
Come on. You have to admit it's sort of ridiculous."
What i...
SARAH DESSEN The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies,<...
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON My hair is not the shiniest of bobs
My eyes are not the brightest in the room
My figure wi...
NANCY N. RUE THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS


Laugh, I tell you
And you will turn back
The ...
SUZY KASSEM Is this some kind of joke?"

"That's for me to know and you to find out."

"Mayb...
KURT VONNEGUT Pale were your looks; and the rose in your tresses
Paler of hue than the dreams we have lost;
...
MADISON CAWEIN What is it about ye, Sassenach, I wonder?” he said conversationally, eyes still fixed on Myers. DIANA GABALDON People are crazy about food, smoking, drinking, girls but not about their dreams.
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Then paint her eyes, whose active light
Shall make the fo...
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“I think y...
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How many of you wish to be Wizards when you grow old?
How many of...
NATAšA NUIT PANTOVIć Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to
know wh...
VERONICA ROTH Girls, there are poets who learn from you
to say, what you, in your aloneness, are;
and th...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Fro and to in my dreams to you
To the haunting tune of the harp
For the price I paid when ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Studies show:
Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world i...
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TONY HAWK The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road R.L.S. Beauty is frightening," they will tell you —

Lazily you will arrange

A Spani...
ALEXANDER BLOK Your exuberance, passion,
mesmerizing voice,
animated actions,
and eyes full of dr...
VIJAYA GOWRISANKAR When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The...
HAROLD MONRO Valentine!"
"You mean father. I despise this modern habit of calling one's parents by their nam...
CASSANDRA CLARE i do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own
<...
RUPI KAUR Sometimes...
I don't tell people about their wrongdoings.
I tell them about the gain of do...
TOBA BETA You came to my life
with what you were bringing,
made
of light and bread and shadow I...
PABLO NERUDA A stranger lies behind my eyes,
I know not what he wants;
sells me dreams, tells me tale...
AKASH MANDAL during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
whores
CHARLES BUKOWSKI As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.”
“And you're still not sor...
SUZANNE COLLINS He has found galaxies
in between the thighs of other girls
and suddenly the world
I w...
UPILE CHISALA When I got out of the movie, I had four text messages from Augustus.

Tell me my copy is m...
JOHN GREEN I took one look at it and demanded that he name three things he isn't good at.
"Roller s...
RICK YANCEY Girls with poison necklaces
to save themselves from torture.
Just as women wear amulets MICHAEL ONDAATJE I still stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?' he asks.
'No, I want you to reth...
SUZANNE COLLINS There is still one of which you never speak.'

Marco Polo bowed his head.

'Veni...
ITALO CALVINO Tell me it's not true."
He sighed. "Fine. It's not true."
...
And yet...
"Are yo...
KATHLEEN PEACOCK I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally...
SAM CLAFLIN We'll erase those who want to use us for our family prestige...

...and erase those gir...
BISCO HATORI You're right, my problems are the biggest problems ever," George said. "No, honestly, it's horrible ...
ILONA ANDREWS Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
You...
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JULIE CONNOR O, weary angels,
don’t look at me with those eyes.
If that is your state
then wha...
KAMAND KOJOURI I leaned my head back and closed my eyes. "We're supposed to be celebrating our two-week anniversary...
ROBIN BRANDE I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."

Now that we were safely down the mountain...
RICK RIORDAN I wonder what became of you, your Johnny
Rotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.
You'd have bee...
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by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn't interest me what you do for a li...
ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER Since ever the world was spinning
And till the world shall end
You've your man in the begi...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls wi...
J.D. SALINGER I asked him for it.
For the blood, for the rust,
for the sin.
I didn’t want the pea...
DANIELLA MICHALLENI Eliza: The problem with YOU is that you don't take the RESPONSIBILITY for anything@ You think you ca...
LAUREN BARNHOLDT You looked strange climbing in the tree like that."
Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fi...
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"Son what does it take
To reach out and touch your dreams?"
To t...
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ANNA CHLUMSKY To me, accessorizing is the most fun part of an outfit. While I don't think you can't rely o...
ANNA KENDRICK I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are a...
ANNA NETREBKO I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up ...
ANNA WINTOUR There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
ANNA HELD If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman ...
ANNA HELD Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
ANNA HELD No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to the...
ANNA HELD For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
ANNA HELD How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jum...
ANNA HELD It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.
ANNA HELD My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
ANNA HELD No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.
ANNA HELD People look at me and look, but I do not care.
ANNA HELD The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.
ANNA HELD I do not say anything from jealousy.
ANNA HELD I know I am very beautiful.
ANNA HELD Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, ...
ANNA HELD You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.
ANNA HELD Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.
ANNA HELD We must go fast, because the race is against time.
ANNA HELD Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for ...
ANNA HELD Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
ANNA HELD Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.
ANNA HELD To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.
ANNA HELD It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
ANNA HELD One does not re-light a dead cigarette.
ANNA HELD I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
ANNA HELD A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
ANNA HELD When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When o...
ANNA AKANA My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artis...
ANNA MOUGLALIS Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
ANNA QUINDLEN Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the ...
ANNA LINDH We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biologica...
ANNA LINDH There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are...
ANNA QUINDLEN Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon sh...
ANNA LEE Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.
ANNA LINDH A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
ANNA HELD