“Desecration is the smile on my face.”

“If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.”

“I see the dark face that is going to smile at me it is my dark face that is going to smile at me the iron circle is around our neck she does not have sharp earrings in her ears or a round basket she goes in the water with my face.”

“I am not dead I sit the sun closes my eyes when I open them I see the face I lost Sethe's is the face that left me Sethe sees me see her and I see the smile her smiling face is the place for me it is the face I lost she is my face smiling at me doing it at last a hot thing now we can join.”

“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”

“Sometimes the Universe smiled. Mostly she kicked me in the face, stomped on my ribs once I fell down, and laughed at my pain, but once in a while she smiled.”

“Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.”

“I wish I could be the most beautiful smile that gives light to your face at my thought alone.”

“Smile -- it increases your face value.”

“Disease often comes with a smiling face.”