- Mike Hammer: What's your hurry?
- Vergie Darlen: We leave in a few minutes.
- Mike Hammer: I know what to do with them.
- Mike Hammer: [narrating] Vergie had been one of Laurie's closest friends; in fact, she once told me that Laurie kept no secrets from her. Apparently, Laurie shared one secret too many.
- [Mike has pursued a murderer to Brussels where Vergie's troupe is rehearsing a show]
- Vergie Darlen: Oh, gee whiz, don't be so mysterious, Mike. Why are you here?
- Mike Hammer: I just couldn't stay away from you, Vergie.
- Vergie Darlen: Oh, Mike I wish I could believe that was the reason.
- Mike Hammer: Yeah, so do I.
- Mike Hammer: Well, it's quite a party.
- [Andy points a gun at Mike]
- Andy King: Sort of a going-away party... especially for you, Mike.
- Mike Hammer: Well, honey, the gal that said, "Diamonds are a girl's best friends" was wrong, honey - very, very wrong.
- [last lines]
- Mike Hammer: Seven hundred thousand visitors a day to the World's Fair... it was going to take extradition papers to get two of 'em back. I'd be in New York in a few hours, but that didn't make me feel any better. I wasn't exactly sick - it was my pride that was hurting. I wasn't usually wrong about women... not usually.