I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.
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Related He's smiling, and I didn't realize how much I missed seeing that smile. He should smile all the time... COLLEEN HOOVER I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back. HEIDI KLUM It always looked to me like she was smiling. In fact, I know she was. Lots if things smile, like a f... ROBERT NEWTON PECK I love it when strangers smile at me and I smile back, and we have that nice stranger smiling moment... ANONYMOUS All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Try smiling at people, you never know how one smile can affect their day. BENJAMIN BAYANI yepp it's ok, i know you dont care at all, but i still have to make you smile, cause i love seeing y... ABHIYANDA B. Someday you will smile at me And I will smile back at you, You’re going to thank me For loving you... ALON CALINAO DY I smiled back and I thought how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. Th... JENNY VALENTINE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL When you walk and smile at all of those around you, you will find that your smile is as contagious a... ANTHONY T. HINCKS ALEX: “How come you smile when you knock me down?” AIDEN: “It’s the little things... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I was warned about you, you know." And with that half-smile that wrecked me, Noah said, "But yo... MICHELLE HODKIN How do you make me smile when it seems like there’s nothing in the whole world to smile about? PAULA STOKES Free will, huh? Damn. It is a bitch.’ And then he smiled-he smiled-at me, a real smile, revealing ... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children. JIM BUTCHER He looked disheveled and disreputable, like an outlaw on the run. A smile came to his lips, while he... LISA KLEYPAS The new girl looked up and caught me looking at her.I looked away, but it wasbto late. I tried not t... KAMI GARCIA I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that r... JODI PICOULT You don't know how I feel when I see him smiling like that. To see him smiling again without it bein... BETTY BLAKE You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I lo... JENNIFER ANISTON But Alonso kept smiling that smile and nothing made any sense with that smile looking you in the fac... SOL YURICK To tell you the truth I really don't know why I just randomly smile when you're around. You're just ... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB theres gonna be some stuff you gonna see thats gonna make it hard to smile in the future, but throug... TUPAC SHAKUR Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile a... RAINBOW ROWELL How old are you?” she asked. My answer was automatic and ingrained. “Seventeen.” “... STEPHENIE MEYER Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you ha... JEAN BAUDRILLARD when I pass away I don't want you to endure in the pain of my lost. I want you to remember me for th... ROSA M. BETANCES I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll ove... JILLIAN LAUREN If someone tells you more than five times to smile and you smile, than you are a parrot and that per... APURVA GAGLANI And in case I forget everything, including to come back, I want you to know that I still love you."<... JOSEPHINE ANGELINI 'Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?' she said with a bit of sadness in her voice. 'What y... BERNICE L. MCFADDEN Lately I've become so damned distracted that I can't make a decision about anything. I can't think c... LISA KLEYPAS Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so a... CLAIRE KING I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax. BECCA FITZPATRICK It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled a... CAROL BIRCH I like your glasses," he said. "I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don't smile at ever... RAINBOW ROWELL Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac... MOTHER THERESA Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA She smiled at him. It was her special smile. Her please go away you piece of sub-proletarian turd sm... HELEN ZAHAVI Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out... ROBERT POWELL He has that smile that just captures people. He's early to practice, smile on his face, 'How you doi... JOEY SATO It is much easier to be strong in faith when you are smiling. So it would automatically lift my mood... BRONNIE WARE When you wear a smiling face, you indirectly cause other people to smile too. EBENEZER O. AKINRINADE Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy. ROY T. BENNETT Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy. ROY BENNETT I am nothing I am just a dream I am just a part of reality and construct I am you...I am your reflec... SHIVALIK KALSOTRA No matter how busy you are, No matter in which position you are, No matter what situation life gives... YASMEEN KHAN you're always smiling and it seems so friendly, but the way you smile is so empty, it hurts just to ... NICHOLAS WOLFE my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to... CHARLES BUKOWSKI After I finished, there was quite a long period of silence as I watched a smile spread all the way a... JOHN GREEN And one smile, and another smiled, and they all smiled, for joy that Christiana was become a pilgrim... JOHN BUNYON Practice smiling, it's good for you to smile SOTONYE ANGA I have died at the ripe age of twenty. Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint m... KAMAND KOJOURI It's hard to really look at somebody and go: "Hey, maybe something nice will happen." You just don't... LOUIS C.K. Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's... TEGAN QUIN Ember shook her head and looked down at me, her expression caught somewhere between a smile and a gr... JULIE KAGAWA The law of a good start:
Start your morning with a smile. You don't need any reason to smile. Just s... JOHN B. BEJO I’m afraid you cannot leave,' said Zarniwoop, 'you are entwined in the Improbability Field. You ca... DOUGLAS ADAMS Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care... THICH NHAT HANH People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm a... HANSIKA MOTWANI I remembered reading somewhere that if you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier. ELIZABETH EULBERG Think about how much better this world would be if people would just smile at each other more often.... TOM GIAQUINTO Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. EMM COLE Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'" I stared at him, shocked. Th... ILONA ANDREWS You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo--"I Love ... ELIZABETH SCOTT Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. LES BROWN There is a difference between 'I love your smile' and 'I love to see you smile'. NAMAN GARG Disability is not what we see or appear, it is all about not doing what one really wanted to do... SEAL THE SMILE i hope that whoever you are wherever you are and no matter how you are feeling SANOBER KHAN You did something to me, I don't know what it was but I do know that I don't want to lose you. You a... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB No, I know,” Levi said. “But it’s not you. You don’t push through every moment. You pay atte... RAINBOW ROWELL When you have done your best with what you know how to do best -- and people everywhere look at you ... MAURICE CHEVALIER I believe that you can always learn from observation. TAMARA TUNIE Im going to smile and make you think Im happy, Im going to laugh, so you dont see me cry, I�... NEIL GAIMAN For God’s sake. Don’t do that.” “Don’t do what?” “Smile.” TESSA DARE Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not... UMBERTO ECO When you see someone smile, does it naturally make you want to smile back? When you are irritable, d... SUSAN C. YOUNG We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me. PATRICK NESS I betray her, I betray myself and make you happy. I betray you, I betray myself and make her happy. ... MEG MCFEY When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you. PHILIPPA GREGORY I want to make you smile. For real. Always. We're going to go for dinners, and see movies, and walk ... K.A. TUCKER Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile. TESSA DARE A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around... RICHELLE MEAD I love… I love black women.” My first reaction was to laugh and then smile. “You see I love th... ELLA DECEMBER Me, too.” Dove looked at him and smiled. Johnson missed his mouth when he went for a s... DEBRA ANASTASIA People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile. OLLY MURS You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. CARLY FIORINA I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib... ROALD DAHL Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, ... JOHN JAMES AUDUBON Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know... ANI DIFRANCO
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(31.26) MARKUS ZUSAK It's hard to not like a man who not only notices the colors, but speaks them. MARKUS ZUSAK The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying to the floor like powder. MARKUS ZUSAK I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writ... MARKUS ZUSAK Now I've changed things. I've left my own fingerprints on the world, no matter how small, and it's u... MARKUS ZUSAK In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory hum... MARKUS ZUSAK You can't eat books, sweetheart. MARKUS ZUSAK One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me. MARKUS ZUSAK A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter. MARKUS ZUSAK I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that ra... MARKUS ZUSAK When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up w... MARKUS ZUSAK People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day... MARKUS ZUSAK See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never re... MARKUS ZUSAK And why?’ He pauses. ‘I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness, Ed. And if a guy lik... MARKUS ZUSAK She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head ... MARKUS ZUSAK I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish. MARKUS ZUSAK The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like the clouds... MARKUS ZUSAK How many times did she have to say goodbye? MARKUS ZUSAK Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t... MARKUS ZUSAK Here is a small fact: You are going to die" "does this scare you? I urge you don't be afraid, I... MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT *** ABOUT RUDY STEINER He didn't deserve to die the way he did. MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT *** ***ABOUT RUDY STEINER*** He didn't deserve to die the way he ... MARKUS ZUSAK The moon was sewn into the sky that night MARKUS ZUSAK The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sk... MARKUS ZUSAK There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking,and there are soft,coal-colored clouds... MARKUS ZUSAK He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would... MARKUS ZUSAK He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was ... MARKUS ZUSAK An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis. MARKUS ZUSAK Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in. MARKUS ZUSAK If your eyes could speak, what would they say?. MARKUS ZUSAK Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of a... MARKUS ZUSAK The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was no... MARKUS ZUSAK