And Satan smiled, stretched out his hand, and said, "O War, of all the scourges of humanity, I crown you chief.
But Annabeth just smiled and put us in jail. As she was heading back to the front line, she turned and winked. "See you at the fireworks?" She didn't even wait for my answer before darting off into the woods. I looked at Beckendorf. "Did she just. . . ask me out?" He shrugged, completely disgusted. "Who knows with girls? Give me a haywire dragon, any day. " So we sat together and waited while the girls won the game.
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.
I’m going to grab a cheeseburger,” I told Patch. “Want anything?” “Nothing on the menu. ” I smiled. “Why, Patch, are you flirting with me?
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
When he pulled away, he smiled kindly at me. I felt so good, I'll admit I teared up a little. I guess until that moment I hadn't allowed myself to realize just how terrified I had been the last few days. "Dad-" "Shhh," he said. "No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. Not even Hercules-
My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you. '
He closed his eyes, dropping his forehead against hers. “You’ll be the death of me, Elena. ” She smiled. “You need a little excitement in that boring old life of yours.
Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
She smiled with the warmth of a penguin.
Perfect night, wasn't it?" "It could have been. " I smiled up at him. "But you were there.
That's a big nose," he croaked and instantly realized he shouldn't have said something so impolite. I must be light headed, e thought. But the face smiled. The teeth seemed inordinatley white against the dark beard and skin. The only one I have," he said.
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.
I asked her, "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" She looked at her watch and said, "I'm optimistic. " "Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon. " "Why do beautiful songs make you sad?" "Because they aren't true. " "Never?" "Nothing is beautiful and true. " She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, "You sound just like Dad.
What were you thinking about? When I came in?" "Being Sam," I said. "What a nice thing to be," Grace said. And then she smiled, bigger and bigger, until I felt my expression mirror hers, our noses touching.
No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.
We're crazy about this city. First time we came here, we walked the streets all day, all over town and nobody hassled us. People smiled, friendly-like, and we knew we could live here. We'd like to keep our place in Greenwich Village and have an apartment here, God and the Immigration Service willing. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.
Alec looked down at the shattered pieces in disbelief. “You BROKE my PHONE. ” Jace shrugged. “Guys don’t let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay, that came out wrong. Friends don’t let friends keep calling their exes and hanging up. Seriously. You have to stop. ” Alec looked furious. “So you broke my brand new phone? Thanks a lot. ” Jace smiled serenely and lay back on the grass. “You’re welcome.
Brigan threw his head back and smiled at the sky. "Well said, Lady. The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot of us can have a bath.
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.