“She fizzed when she smiled.”
“When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.”
“Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.”
“I had been wrong when I said Liza McCullen wasn't beautiful: when she smiled she was stunning.”
“When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.”
“Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.”