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Quotes About Laughter

I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.
~ Lois Lowry
I laugh, because he knew what I was thinking, and very few people ever know what I'm thinking.
~ Lois Lowry
The Giver laughed, then Jonah, too, chuckled reluctantly.
~ Lois Lowry
But his mother laughed again in a reassuring, affectionate way. "No, no," she said. "It's just the pills. You're ready for the pills, that's all. That's the treatment for Stirrings.
~ Lois Lowry
We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.
~ Lois Lowry
looked at her. She was so lovely. For a fleeting instant he thought he would like nothing better than to ride peacefully along the river path, laughing and talking with his gentle female friend.
~ Lois Lowry
He laughed a little, but the laughter was not lighthearted. His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.
~ Lois Lowry
But he was a happy and easygoing toddler. Now he moved unsteadily across the room, laughing. "Gay!" he chirped. "Gay!" It was the way he said his own name.
~ Lois Lowry
Mama was laughing quietly. "I remember, too," she said. "Sometimes she wet the bed in the middle of the night!" "I did not!" Kirsti said haughtily from the bedroom doorway. "I never, ever did that!
~ Lois Lowry
Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant? asked Elena. I wondered why he didn't fall asleep. Couldn't you tell? chuckled Mayhew. Not really. Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. My God, he said hollowly, you mean he's like that all the time?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
When the man arises who can make you laugh, solemn Ista, angry Ista, iron Ista, then will your heart be healed. You have not prayed for this: it's a guerdon even the gods cannot give you. We are limited to such simples as redemption from your sins.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
He smiled, recapturing her hand. "A very wise woman once told me—you just go on. I've never encountered any good advice that didn't boil down to that, in the end. Not even my father's." I want to be with you always, so you can make me laugh myself well.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
In a voice not his own, as resonant in this cell as the reverberations in a bass drum, Iroki said, 'Take better care of my gift this time, child. You're going to need it.' The sense but not the sound of an immense belly laugh, tidal, oceans deep. And then as vast as the presence, somehow vaster, absence. The emptiness left was like a room stripped of its very air. One would weep for the loss if one could only breathe.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Cordelia shook her head helplessly. "You would. A vote. Right." She buried her face in her hands a moment, and sobbed a laugh. "Why?" she asked through her fingers.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Her lips curved up. "That's very Ingrey of you, Ingrey. Always look on the dark side." "Someone has to be realistic, in the midst of this madness!" Now her brows rose, too. She was laughing at him. "Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too. It was my undeserved redemption as well.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Tej. Will you stay with me for the rest of my life?" At the little jump of the laugh in her chest, his encircling arm tightened, heartened and heartening. He'd intended her to laugh, she guessed. Ivan Xav was good at that, it occurred to her. Making light in dark places.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
No it's better not to make gods or demons smile: they don't laugh at the same jokes as us.
~ Lord Dunsany
Not everything's funny, Mother. No, said Leola, so I guess when you can laugh,, it's all the sweeter.
~ Lorna Landvik
He read his own obituary and an editorial lamenting his demise and praising his fortitude and immediately began to think up witty ways of writing to the paper to announce his continued and uninterrupted existence. The other two joined in the game with enthusiasm, and soon all three of them were howling with laughter and emptying bottles at a rate which would have alarmed even a depressed Scandinavian.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, my fair lady.
~ Louis Sachar
Kachooga Boop
~ Louis Sachar
hysterically.
~ Louis Sachar
liked his jokes and even laughed and everything, he didn't think about the pebble.
~ Louis Sachar
Kate Barlow died laughing.
~ Louis Sachar