Unsmilingly Crossword Quotes & Sayings

THE SERUM WEARS off five hours later, when the sun is just beginning to set. Tobias shut me in my room for the rest of the day, checking on me every hour. This time when he comes in, I am sitting on the bed, glaring at the wall. "Thank God," he says, pressing his forehead to the door. "I was beginning to think it would never wear off and I would have to leave you here to ... smell flowers, or whatever you wanted to do while you were on that stuff. — Veronica Roth

The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw
entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its head. It was busy about the truckle-beds, but not for long. The sound of cries - faint, as if coming out of a vast distance - but, even so, infinitely appalling, reached the ear. ("The Haunted Doll's House") — M.R. James

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing. — Ernest Hemingway,

I can only imagine what goes on in that head of yours ... " he teased. "I assure you I haven't taken up black magic, ritualistic sacrifice, or - "
"Plushophilia?" I tagged on.
"Excuse me? ... " came his half-confused, half-intrigued reaction.
"An obsession with stuffed animals," I clarified. "I mean, you are a young one ... "
"Where did you come up with that?" He kept his hands firmly covering my eyes, but I could hear the amused smile in his voice. "Is that even a real word?"
"I'm a doctor, I know these things," I shrugged. — M.A. George

While Mumbai is a melting pot of cultures, Delhi is made of community, and we can see these lines quite clearly. An aunty from Punjabi Bagh will be different from a Faridabad aunty or an aunty from Vasant Kunj. — Vir Das

That's the whole problem, isn't it?" He turned his face toward the night sky and let out a horrible laugh, like a gasp of pain. "Why are you the only person who's allowed to be strong? — Katie Alender

I get so bummed when I have to return the clothes I'm lent. It's easy to feel so special, but like Cinderella, you lose your shoes. — Morgan Saylor

The conditioning and the lifestyle changes you have to make to remain a healthy athlete are what molded me into what I am today. — John Cena

Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while. And then Death came in the night and whispered her secret into the ear of the eighty second Lord of Stormhold, and he nodded his grey head and said nothing more — Neil Gaiman

You're so focused on this child, you can sometimes forget about you as a couple, and that's just as important. — Al Roker

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves. — Meir Kahane

...giving me the exact kind of smile of someone who, on Christmas morning, has just unwrapped an expensive present he already owns. — David Foster Wallace

O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow. — Arthur O'Shaughnessy

The only power she wanted over him was the power to make him happy ... She wanted them to be equal in their loving, not master and slave. — Mary Jo Putney

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while. — Billy Crystal