„She smiled at me, arsenically.“

„She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.“

—  Raymond Chandler, book Farewell, My Lovely

Source: Farewell, My Lovely

„Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.“

—  Scott Westerfeld, book Uglies

Source: Uglies

„Something tells me how
Her bright blue eyes
Are smiling;
She turns her head and now
When she wants she denies him…“

—  Mike Oldfield English musician, multi-instrumentalist 1953

Song lyrics, Discovery (1984)

„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.“

—  Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

„“Let’s waste a little time, hmm?”
“A nice euphemism, sir,” she mused distantly.
He smiled. “Come and help me think of better ones.”
She smiled and they both looked at each other.
There was a long pause.“

—  Iain Banks, Culture series

Source: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter IX (p. 157).

„She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time“

—  Ann Brashares, book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

„my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"

and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw“

—  Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

„When Fortune smiles, I smile to think
How quickly she will frown.“

—  Robert Southwell English Jesuit 1561 - 1595

Source: Content and Rich, Line 63; p. 59.

„She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.“

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

„She is smiling and her eyes are kind but now the smile is purely social“

—  James Baldwin, book Giovanni's Room

Pt. 1, Ch. 3 - p.62
Giovanni's Room (1956)

„She glared at him. "You're doing it again."
"What?"
"That thing that irritates me."
"Smiling?"
"Yes. That.“

—  Susan Elizabeth Phillips, book Nobody's Baby But Mine

Source: Nobody's Baby But Mine

„She gave me a wide-eyed, innocent smile that looked as out of place on her as it would have on a desert scorpion.“

—  George Alec Effinger, book A Fire in the Sun

Source: A Fire in the Sun (1989), Chapter 7 (p. 95).

„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.“

—  Toni Morrison, book Beloved

Source: Beloved (1987), Ch. 22

„Don’t kiss me,” she said warningly.
“I don’t intend to,” he replied, smiling a little. “I don’t have my whip and chair with me.“

—  Linda Howard American writer 1950

Source: Mr. Perfect

„Jenny, if you're so con­vinced I'm a loser, why did you bull­doze me into buy­ing you cof­fee?'

She looked me straight in the eye and smiled.

'I like your body,' she said.“

—  Erich Segal, book Love Story

Source: Love Story

„She looked at me. Looked away. “You think too much of me.”
I smiled. “Perhaps you think too little of yourself.”“

—  Patrick Rothfuss, book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 62, “Leaves” (p. 464)

„Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.“

—  John Steinbeck, book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

„But by that time you do not much care whether she smiles or frowns. Why could she not have smiled when her smiles would have filled you with ecstasy? Everything comes too late in this world.“

—  Jerome K. Jerome, book Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

„She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.“

—  Joseph Heller, book Catch-22

Source: Catch 22