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• Well,I hope you like the ring." He held it out to me, he velvet lid still closed. "My mom hates it." "I'm sure I'll love it,then," I said, and he laughed.

  Amanda Hocking

  Mom, Hate, Velvet

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• And this must be Avery?" "Oh, God, no," Cam said. "This is Candy, Mom." His mother's eyes widened and a bit of color infused her cheeks. "Uh, I'm..." "I'm Avery," I said, shooting Cam a look. "You had it right." She spun around, smacking Cam across the arm. Hard, too. "Cameron! Oh my God. I thought..." She smacked him again and he laughed. "You're terrible.

  J. Lynn

  Mom, Mother, Eye

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• Jem’s eyes had widened, and then he’d laughed, a soft laugh. “Did you think I did not know you had a secret?” he’d said. “Did you think I walked into my friendship with you with my eyes shut? I did not know the nature of the burden you carried. But I knew there was a burden.” He’d stood up. “I knew you thought yourself poison to all those around you,” he’d added. “I knew you thought there to be some corruptive force about you that would break me. I meant to show you that I would not break, that love was not so fragile. Did I do that?

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Thinking, Laughing

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1024, Simon and Schuster

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• Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion." "Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?" Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here." "How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious. "Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing." “How's that a duel?” "He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about." Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Fashion, Rocks, Knives

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• She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sound, Wanted

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• Good God, you don’t give up.” “Nope.” I laughed, couldn’t help it, and his smile spread in response to the sound. “I’m sure there are plenty of girls who want to go out on a date with you.” “There are.” “Wow. Modest aren’t you?” “Why should I be?” he shot back. “And I want to go out on a date with you. Not them.

  J. Lynn

  Girl, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• I will kill him.” “Erra’s eyebrows rose. “You’d have to go through me first.” I shrugged. “I have to do something for a warm-up.” She laughed softly. “That’s the spirit. I do think you might be my favorite niece.

  Ilona Andrews

  Niece, Thinking, Eyebrows

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• To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Should Have, Done, Caught

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• Half of them kept repeating my name, trying to get it right, while the other half laughed. But they were harmless. Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party: Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh. I remember those guys. Like the mascots of the party. "Clay! Whatcha doon here? Bah-ha-ha-ha!

  Jay Asher

  Fun, Nice, Party

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.108, Penguin

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• My father looked like he was having a stroke— not that Mel seemed to notice because he just kept talking. “Patrick needs a ride. No car, you know, and so I figured, hey, I can pick up some gas money.” He laughed. No one else did, and now Patrick looked like he was trying to push himself inside the door and hide.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Father, Doors, Talking

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• Vic nudged my elbow with his. "You and me are still friends, right? You guys get a joint custody in the divorce. Generous visitations rights." "Divorce?" Despite myself, I laughed. Only Vic could call the aftermath of a bad first date a divorce. We hadn't exactly been friends beforehand, so "still" was an exaggeration, but it would've been mean to point that out. Besides, I liked Vic. "We're still friends." "Excellent. The weirdos have to stick together around here." "Are you calling me a weirdo?" "Highest honor I can bestow.

  Claudia Gray

  Mean, Divorce, Rights

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• Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.

  Hermann Hesse

  Moving, Rivers, Singing

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.45, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Might, Tragic, Situation

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.58, Macmillan

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• 'When you were little, what inspired you to feel this way?'" Then he paused and asked, "Looking in the mirror and having it crack in two?" Instead of clobbering him, I laughed-the kind of laugh that escapes into the air before you can catch it. The kind of chuckle that shows a tiny form of acceptance. Trevor obviously didn't expect me to find his remark entertaining. He was primed for a fight. We both cracked up and locked eyes. His gaze lingered a little too long, not in a creepy way, but in a way that says I'm not ready to let this moment go.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Eye, Fighting, Acceptance

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• And so they fought. And so they laughed. Friends. And before they knew it, They were inseparable.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Inseparable

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• I found people looked better when they laughed

  Mort Sahl

  People, Found

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• The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Laughter, Men

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• She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white whose gentle voice was soft and sad.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Laughter, Fall

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• And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

  Jill Sobule

  Laughter, World, Pearls

  Song: I Kissed a Girl, Album: Jill Sobule, 1995

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• Most of us, when asked to gauge the richness of our lives, think immediately of people. Those who have cried with us, laughed with us, and shaped who we are.

  Phil Callaway

  Life, Thinking, People

  Phil Callaway (2009). “Making Life Rich Without Any Money”, p.137, Harvest House Publishers

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• A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

  Jacob M. Appel

  People, Monkeys, Today

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• The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

  Carl Sagan

  Laughter, Doing You, Doe

  Broca's Brain ch. 5 (1979)

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• The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

  Saul Alinsky

  Accepting, Establishment

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• Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

  Don Rickles

  Kids, Controversial, Provocative

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• Huh? Oh you have a hidden agenda, do you?" She laughed. His straight-faced humor always surprised her. "You promised me you didn't." "There is nothing hidden about it," he replied. My objective is obvious. I've decided I'd rather have you describe me as 'sweet' than a 'slagging pain in the tailset.'" "Really?" "Well..." he looked up from the bag. "Maybe not in public." "I might be able to confine myself to saying it in private, if you gave me a reason." Taya met his eyes, and he blushed.

  Dru Pagliassotti

  Sweet, Pain, Eye

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