Ava-wrestles-the-alligator Quote by Karen Russell

“And that’s how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh.”

— Laini Taylor

“We laughed. Ha, ha, we went. Ha, ha, ha. I’m not laughing now. Never has a joke filled me with such nausea and paranoia…

— Nick Hornby

“We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.”

— Lois Lowry

“There is thin line between smile and laughter.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“Laughs are just like smiles. People use them to express an array of confounding emotions.”

— Nita Prose

“I should like to knock their silly heads together. What is the sense of laughing all the time? They are not saying anything funny.”

— Agatha Christie

“You have this maddening little smile sometimes, like you've just thought of something incredibly witty but are afraid to say it in case no…

— Robyn Schneider

“All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.”

— Thomas Hardy

“...giggling disconnected from humor.”

— Joe McGinniss Jr

“the absurdity of the situation struck home and she began to laugh. “What,” he ground out, dropping her hand, “is so amusing?” With difficulty…

— Susanna Fraser

“He’s trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he tries not to laugh.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“The old man laughed. Now that I did find unsettling. They always laugh right before they kill you. After the long explanation of their…

— Iain Rowan