„I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. “Aye, mo duinne. But you’re my sassenach.“

— Diana Gabaldon

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„Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile,And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart,And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,And frame my face for all occasions“
— William Shakespeare
„I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said.My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?“
— Jodi Picoult
„On seeing the Enterprise's warp engine while visiting the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation (where he would briefly play himself in the 1993 episode Descent, Part I), Hawking smiled and said: I'm working on that.“
— Stephen Hawking
„But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that says: "I'm important. If you only get to know me, you will see how important I am. Look into my eyes. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.“
— Sylvia Plath
„I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning