“I laughed until my fat hurt.”
“I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”
“I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.”
“I turned my face to the sky and laughed because the things you enjoy can’t hurt you.”
“I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.”
“...and I laughed and laughed and laughed until the sound of the sea was drowned.”