“There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest -- and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges.”

“The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see”

“(speaking of insecurity)"It's broken greater spirits than ours, and robbed the world of God knows how much beauty. I've seen it happen more times than I like to think about."--"$10,000 A Year, Easy”

“The girls screamed. They covered themselves with their hands and turned their backs and so on, and made themselves utterly beautiful.”

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

“When everything was beautiful and nothing hurt...”

“Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.”