1. At first glance her beauty was striking—fresh-faced and delicate with large eyes, her little black dress cinched at the waist, her hair pinned in a chignon. At second glance, her deep, intelligent eyes were entrancing, still vivid on newspapers yellowed from light and air and lined with age that Fate didn’t offer to her.
Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
2. He’ll marry me within a year—such a vague commitment, as if he’s putting a suit on hold at Bergdorf’s.
Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale
3. She had seen the faces of shattered dreams, the zippy Ziegfeld girls, the doll-faced divorcées, the wellborn wives in opulent ivory towers, knocked down and knocked right out.
Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale