“Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.”
“One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.”
“Pretty words are not always true, true words are not always pretty; and yet, they are still true.”
“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
“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.”
“Pretty is different,' he murmured. 'Pretty has no scars. You are...' jaw muscles tensed again. 'Like the morning sky in Afghanistan. Not 'pretty'. Word's 'breathtaking'.”