Grin Quotes

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Jean Genet
“The pimp has a grin, never a smile.”
Jean Genet, The Balcony

Robert Jordan
“When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose.”
Robert Jordan, Crossroads of Twilight

Lewis Carroll
“All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

Richelle E. Goodrich
“I never realized how much you meant to me until someone spoke your name and an irrepressible, goofy grin stretched my lips.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

Kelly Moran
“Her grin leveled kingdoms.”
Kelly Moran, Charmed

Sarah Brocious
“Nolan crossed his arms; he had his gorgeous frowny face on. "Don't you trust me?"
Raina looked at him incredulously. "Of course I trust you...undoubtedly." She felt her spine stiffen in defiance of her friend’s assumption. She'd like to prove her wrong!
A slow sexy grin tugged at his lips. "Then take a ride on my bike, Aelan.”
Sarah Brocious, The Awakening

Israelmore Ayivor
“Smile once a while; even if life tastes like bitter bile, just file out your teeth and cheeks and take a mile of sweet smiles... Smile, make it your life's style. Decorate your face with piles of smiles!”
Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

Munia Khan
“Night never needs a shade
but it requires to fade
into the grin of twinkling stars
where light is just a glint of scars”
Munia Khan

Richelle E. Goodrich
“There's enchantment in a smile, did you know?
Shall I prove in a wink that it is so?
Watch my mouth grin wide and see,
How quick your lips smile back at me!”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Richelle E. Goodrich
“When kindhearted people smile, demons shrink and turn away as if tormented by the gesture. But when those beautiful smiles are made to fade, every awful creature in the world stands surer. So do yourself and mankind a favor and smile BIG whether you feel like it or not.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Catherynne M. Valente
“September laughed and her laugh sounded like a roar; as if she had never been able to properly laugh in her whole life, only giggle or chuckle or grin, and now that she could do it right, now that her laughing had grown up and put bells on, it had become the most boisterous, rowdy roar you ever heard.”
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

Jonathan Stroud
“He smiled at us; we smiled at him. Three crocodiles on a muddy shore could not have smiled at each other more eloquently or with such gleaming teeth”
Jonathan Stroud, The Hollow Boy

Kristen Simmons
“I feel a strange sensation brewing inside of me. It tickles my throat and forces my lips into a grin. Before I can stifle it, I giggle. And then I laugh.”
Kristen Simmons, The Glass Arrow

Richelle E. Goodrich
“Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

R.E.  Vance
“He smiled and as his lips parted, little bits of solid waste fell from them. Hellelujah, we can only be what we are, I thought and wondered if I was as repulsive to him as he was to me. I don't think so, because even though he literally wore a shit-eating grin, I sensed he was genuinely happy to see me”
R.E. Vance, GoneGodWorld, Episode Two

Terry Pratchett
“He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles.”
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

Reem
“The devil doesn't smile, it grins. And I did.”
Reem Aquil, This Infinite Moment

Donald E. Westlake
“The older a man gets...the longer it takes for him to get a grin organized.”
Donald E. Westlake

Holly Black
“His grin broadens, that charming smile, with which he could coax ducks to bring their own eggs to him for his breakfast. With which he could make delicate negotiations over a prisoner seem like nothing more than a game.”
Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

Douglas Adams
“Not a lot," he said, and suddenly flashed one of those grins of his which always made people think he's been overdoing things recently and should try and get some rest.”
Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
tags: grin

Kamil Ali
“PROPAGANDA (PROP-A-GANDER)

An evil grin behind a smiling clown's mask

Kamil Ali”
Kamil Ali, The Initiates

Anthony Ryan
“Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone."
Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. "Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.”
Anthony Ryan, Queen of Fire

Max Gladstone
“A grin, Zanj had always felt personally, was more a state of mind than a set of the lips.”
Max Gladstone, Empress of Forever
tags: grin, smile

Sarah J. Maas
“Lucien sighed as he looked me over. 'Do you ever stop being so serious and dull?'

'Do you ever stop being such a prick?' I snapped back.

Dead- really, truly, I should have been dead for that.

But Lucien grinned at me. 'Much better.'

Alis, it seemed, had not been wrong.”
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

Frans de Waal
“The human smile derives from the nervous grin found in other primates. We employ it when there is a potential for conflict, something we are always worried about even under the friendliest circumstances. We bring flowers or a bottle of wine when we are invading other people’s home territory, and we greet each other by waving an open hand, a gesture thought to originate from showing that we carry no weapons. But the smile remains our main tool to improve the mood. Copying another’s smile makes everyone happier, or as Louis Armstrong sang: “When you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you.”
Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves