And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!
Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man. - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.
- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever. - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.
lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss. - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.
And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' t… - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' t…
The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers. - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.
Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly. - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.
I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the wo… - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the wo…
Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time. - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Truth out of season was sourer than strawberries at Christmas time.
the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are… - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are…
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