“Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.”

“To die in Paris costs a pretty penny.”

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”

“We didn't die,' she said.

Of course not. I'm too clever to die, and you're too pretty.'

I am pretty,' Valkryie said, managing a grin.”

“Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.”

“To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.”

“Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.”

“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”

“We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.”

“As exits go, that's a good one." It was pretty hard to have the last word with a vampire.”