Business Quote by Arundhati Roy

“He was so cheerful all the time it seemed like he might have brain damage.”

— Nicole Conway

“The wrinkles on his face indicated where his smiles had rested all these years. I wondered how he could live so cheerfully.”

— Bharani Kumar Buyakar

“They were all so jovial and relaxed with one another, fraternal even. Maybe I was envious of that. They had lives—that was evident.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“He would be the kind of friend he wished he had, and so perhaps become worthy of having such a friend himself.”

— Laurence Shames

“But the happiest people he encountered —including some living extremely modestly—had a strong connection to those around them. “They laughed and really enjoyed being…

— Warren Berger

“He was a relentlessly cheerful presence, talked only of himself but so good-naturedly that she indulged him. He certainly laughed a good deal. Something…

— Julie Anne Long

“Sometimes, next to him, she looked like she was holding in too much happiness for one person.”

— Alexis Bass

“He began to understand suddenly what friends were for: they reminded you that things weren't so bad after all. Reminded you never to stop…

— S.J. Kincaid

“He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Okay, he hadn't exactly been happy. But welcome to the club, right? He had eyes. He could see auras, those swirls of color that…

— Melinda Metz

“But now that he was here, he was happy. It wasn’t an uncomplicated kind of happy, but still. Something about the warm atmosphere, the…

— Heidi Belleau

“I watched him, the length of his lashes against his cheek, the lean jaw emphasized by the slight shadow of a day's beard. His…

— Amy Harmon