“Mr Arbuthnot did not respond, but sat with a thin, weak smile, like winter sunshine upon a coffin lid.”

“Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.”

“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.”

“A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.”

“Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing.”

“If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.”

“And then he smiled at me, and he was Jeremiah again. Susannah’s boy, sunshine and smiles. Her little angel.”

“As withered weed through cruell winters tine,
That feeles the warmth of sunny beames reflection,
Liftes up his head, that did before decline
And gins to spread his leafe before the faire sunshine.”

“You are the only warmth in my heart. The only sunshine my winter has ever known. (Talon)”

“I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.”