“A dress is a weapon. It must dazzle his eye, raise his temperature . . . and empty his purse.”
“A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.”
“The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life.”
“He raised his sunglasses and saw a young woman in an impossibly brief dress with an improbably welcoming smile”
“His aster-blue eyes shown out from a face blackened by bruises and soot, his fair hair glittering in the firelight. Dressed all in black, silhouetted against flame, he looked rather like a demon, raised from the dead, trading for souls on the other side.”
“Her raised his face to the weeping sky, closed his dark eyes, and sighed deeply, a smile playing on his sensuous lips. "The bloody hour is come.”