Meanings-of-things Quote by C. JoyBell C

“He was filled with questions but figured he’d exhausted her conversation quota already. Some people, he could just tell about them. She was one…

— Heather Burch

“Her smile was genuine-looking and later he would mull her question over and over in his head until it mushroomed into something larger.”

— Anthony Doerr

“She was responsible for the things she chose. That's all. She almost managed a tiny smile. It was simultaneously an incredible responsibility and almost…

— Hiromi Goto

“It amazed her how much people wanted to talk at parties. And about nothing in particular.”

— J.D. Robb

“It was so easy, she thought with some disdain, to find out about people. It was all out there, everything about them. You just…

— Celeste Ng

“Maybe they were back to not talking. That's what she missed the most: talking. Serious, silly, bone-deep, flippant, all their words and thoughts like…

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

“They didn't understand, it not being directed at them, what that smile could do. The power of it. It was like every time he…

— Kristen Ashley

“She smiled at and spoke to each person. It was as though she couldn't come into contact with anyone or anything without imparting some…

— M. Leighton

“But when they talked now, there was a space between their words, a space that both of them tried to fill with smiles and…

— Rachael Herron

“She'd always been an emotional giver- never afraid to soothe, nurture, touch. She cried big, laughed loud, and refused to shy away from silliness.…

— Jennifer Probst

“It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.”

— Stephen King

“It was nice to see a Human smile. So many things looked like smiles but weren't. Sometimes, to feel genuine kindness, I would stare…

— Cecil Castellucci