“… lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”

““You know, Ellie, you play this game awfully well—for a girl.”
“Thank you too much.”
“No, I mean it. I suppose girls are probably as intelligent as men, but most of them don’t act like it. I think it’s because they don’t have to. If a girl is pretty, she doesn’t have to think.””

“People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.”

“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”

“There’s no need for your pretty lies now. It makes no difference to an old woman the things a young girl believed.”

“When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.”

“Some live lies who won’t tell them; some tell lies who won’t live them.”

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”

“I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.”

“A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love—true love—is something else.”