“Gregori flashed a smile meant to reassure, the one that left vivid images of open graves.”
“He saw a blinded convulsing body thrown down into an open grave. It was an image he could not escape.”
“Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.”
“Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.”
“Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents' smiles frozen, camera flashes blinding, mouths open and white teeth glinstening, dark glossy hair and deep blue sky and unrelenting light, everyone drowning in light - everything so clear and perfect I'm sure it must already be a memory, or a dream.”
“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.”