Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost fallen from the palace wall and that Costis had seen him manifestly saved by the God of Thieves. The king smiled. "Cat got your tongue?" "Your Majesty, you are drunk," Costis pleaded. "I am. What's your excuse?
When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.
They'd had fun, for sure. They laughed and enjoyed being together. But if she was painfully honest with herself, something was missing. Something in the way Tim looked at her. She remembered her mom's word. "I saw the way he looked at you. . . he adores you. " Maybe that was it. Tim looked at her on a surface level. He smiled and seemed happy to see her. But When Cody looked at her, there were no layers left, nothing her didn't reveal, nothing he couldn't see. He didn't really look at her so much as he looked into her. To the deepest, most real places in her heart and soul.
How long?" His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest. " For ever?" Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie. "Longer.
And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.
It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open. " Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor.
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
She was staying. A little longer. V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.
Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.
Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.
Perfect night, wasn't it?" "It could have been. " I smiled up at him. "But you were there.
He smiled, so sensual and beautiful, it was another form of bliss just looking at him.
"And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick. "Oh, I'm grand. " Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend. "
He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.
He inclined his head at my dress. "What's the occasion?" "Homecoming," I said, twirling. "Like?" "Last I heard, Homecoming requires a date. " "About that," i hedged. "I'm sort of. . . going with Scott. We both figure a high-school dance is the last place Hank will be patrolling. " Patch smiled, but it was tight. "I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing.
Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
Maxilan, darling. " Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.