“She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eternally matched.”
“I’ll spank your ass so damn hard there’ll be a permanent handprint right there.”She gave him a cheeky smile. “As long as you understand there’ll be a matching one on your face.”
“They said it was going fine and gave him those dazed, fuck-struck smiles of which only newlyweds are capable.”
“. . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman.”
“Hardy recognized what it was that she made him feel. Hope. Miracle gave him hope.”
“It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.”