Quotes About Humor

I can't keep a baby," A.J. says firmly. "I haven't slept in two nights. She's a terrorist! She wakes up at, like, insane times. Three forty-five in the morning seems to be when her day begins. I live alone. I'm poor. You can't raise a baby on books alone.

She had, he thought, one of the world's great laughs. The kind of laugh where a person didn't feel that he was being laughed at. The kind of laugh that was an invitation: I cordially invite you to join in this matter that I find assuming.

I love having sex with you," she says. "If you're a vegetable when this is done, can I still have sex with you?" she asks. "Sure," A.J. says. "And you won't think less of me?" "No." He pauses. "I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the turn this conversation has taken," he says.

She had, he thought, one of the world's great laughs. The kind of laugh where a person didn't feel that he was being laughed at. The kind of laugh that was an invitation: I cordially invite you to join in this matter that I find amusing.

I love having sex with you," she says. "If you're a vegetable when this is done, can I still have sex with you?

This novel has humor, romance, a touch of suspense, but most of all love—love of books and bookish people and, really, all of humanity in its imperfect glory." —EOWYN IVEY, author of The Snow Child

And she always wants to read the same book. And it's, like, the crappiest board book. The Monster at the End of This Book?

You've got a decent smile, I'll give you that, but your teeth are too big and so is your ass and you're not twenty-five anymore even if you drink like you are. You shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Harvey ha muerto, y por un instante Amelia considera la posibilidad de hacer un mal chiste presentando la otra vida como una especie de empresa a la que Harvey se ha incorporado.

A woman. She liked this band called The Cure, and she thought it would be cool if she pierced my ear." Maya thinks about this. "Did you have a parrot?" "I didn't. I had a girlfriend." "Could the parrot talk?" "No, because there wasn't a parrot." She tries to trick him. "What was the parrot's name?" "There wasn't a parrot." "But if there was one, what would his name have been?

You try not to consider what it means that you are watching romantic comedies for occupational advice.

Last year, that Fischer idiot threw a black-and-white cookie at me, and I started to wonder if every principal exited this school with a ceremonial baked good fling.

In reading Twain, I often suspect he is having more fun than I am.)

So you're Dina," I say. "And you two are ..." "Jacob and Edward," the older one says, and they all start laughing. "Sorry, I meant ... I'm Luke, and he's Han," They stifle smiles this time. I'm pretty sure those are names from Star Wars. "Right, and I'm Chewbacca," I say.

Finding Caroline was like placing a personal ad for an imaginary friend, then having her show up at your door funnier and better than you had conceived

Caldwell is the most expensive date in town," he quoted the other boys as saying. "She'll drink you under the table and she'll never put out.

Oh God," I groaned, with mock distress. "Now I guess I'll have to get a boyfriend.

That's funny, you're funny. I like you, I'm quite taken by you.

Em and I don't giggle but we sort of snort, so we snorted.

Leastwise, if I live with her, I finally be the smartest person in the house.

Then he laughed, his typical laugh. Making me wish i had ten more such anectodes stashed away to keep him standing there, holding onto me and laughing.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Dear Miss Tremor. You are smart and kind and pretty. I think you have really excellent stuff under your clothes and I would like to see it, please. Let's go on a date and get married and you can be my rodent queen in my castle in the sewer. Love always and forever, --Mouse. P.S. I am sorry my rats ate some of your candy.

There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.