#aught

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#love #love

A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine. ↗

— Ahmad Shamlou

#love #sadness #tears #love

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective. ↗

— Phil Callaway

#life #life

Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one? ↗

— Kelly Braffet

#mother-and-daughter #passing-over #death

What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#men #mothers #pain #men

They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#laughter #inspirational

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either ↗

— Golda Meir

#laughter #sorrow #sorrow

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#art form #black #form #literature #rigorous

His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#daughter-of-smoke-and-bone #simile #simile

I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#mothers #love