“. . . had decided what to do, which was to smile like the morning sun with a knife in its teeth.”
“She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.”
“You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.”
“It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.”
“Kugel awoke early the next morning, turning his face from the harsh rays of intruding sunlight that stretched across the room like some goddamned thing that stretches across some other goddamned thing.Why did children always draw the sun smiling? he wondered. It's a giant ball of fire, kids. It's rage and fury. Whatever it's doing, it isn't fucking smiling.”
“Happiness is to capture the images of our dreams in the morning dew and the smile of the sun.”