In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as my salvation, but now represented my obliteration.

is push you off the roof.

This couple thought they were as smooth as crunchy peanut butter. But they didn’t fool me with their Bonnie and Clyde act. I knew they were guilty of being innocent the moment I saw them.

Love smoothens the pains of heartbreak and breaks the smoothened hearts as well

If I can’t see the bottom, I don’t know how much is left. Why does my love have to be so thick? I suppose because it keeps the engine of your heart running smooth.

You can’t even put your arm around me without tripping up.

Her corset was long, with a busk of steel; her waist, as I think I have said, was narrow: the kind of waist the doctors speak against, that gives a girl an illness. Her crinoline...

I’m not that smooth.

Sense howEven the smooth stones acheWith stories of their ownIn the shuddering light of day.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

So have I,” he said.

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.