„Are you sure,’ she asked, ‘that it is God whom you serve?’The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently.’That,’ he said, ‘that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!“

— Karen Blixen

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„If you don’t go after Luke,” Clary said, enunciating very clearly, “I, personally, will kill you.”For a moment Jocelyn looked astonished. Then she smiled. “Well,” she said, “if you put it like that.“
— Cassandra Clare
„You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go.“
— Jodi Picoult
„You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."She smiled up at him. Filthy as he was, covered in blood and dirt, he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen."But I don't want anything else in the world.“
— Cassandra Clare
„She is smiling and her eyes are kind but now the smile is purely social“
— James Baldwin
„He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.“
— William Faulkner