" I’m not beautiful. My mother—”
“I know. Your mother was a knockout, and you’re paper bag ugly... Sorry to upset all those cherished illusions of yours, but I don’t see it your way.”
“That’s because you didn’t know her.”
“Could your mother have led tiger back into its cage?”
“Maybe not that, but she was very good with men. They’d do anything for her.”
“This man will do anything for you. "

― Susan Elizabeth Phillips , Kiss an Angel