Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother's fate.

"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing-they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

I hate the vamp jobs. They think they're so suave. It's not enough for them to slaughter and eat you like a zombie would. No, they want to be all sexy, too. And trust me: vampires? Not. Sexy.

She gave Samuel a stern look. "Now, I don't know what's going on between you and my daughter and Adam Hauptman-

Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.

We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.

Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

I'm a Godmother, that's a great thing to be, a Godmother. She calls me God for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

Are you insinuatin' that my daughter is a liar?

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She ? er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

You nicked-named my daughter after the Lock Ness Monster!

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.