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“You know, she's really just a figurehead off an old ship, but the people needed comfort and rescue, so when they looked at it,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Smile is the beauty of the soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The smile she bestowed was radiant, brief and fleeting as the sun peeking out from behind heavy clouds, but beautiful nonetheless.”

— Vivienne Savage

“The beauty of this world is Christ's tender smile coming to us through matter.”

— Simone Weil

“Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.”

— Victor Hugo

“She is a smile in the dark”

— Richard L. Ratliff

“...she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off into some…

— Ralph Ellison

“Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the…

— Margaret George

“A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful.”

— Osamu Dazai

“It was the happiness behind the smile, and the love behind the eyes; that was where her beauty came from.”

— Rebecca Barrow

“Mary had the same face as ma used to have sitting staring into the ashes it was funny that face it slowly grew over…

— Patrick McCabe

“As always, Arbeely’s heart squeezed at the sight of her, a not unpleasant ache, as if to say, Ah well. Like many of the…

— Helene Wecker