“Nick and I, we sometimes laugh, laugh out loud, at the horrible things women make their husbands do to prove their love. The pointless tasks, the myriad sacrifices, the endless small surrenders. We call these men the dancing monkeys.”
“Why on earth do adults have to laugh so loudly at everything? Hyena laughs, the women worse than the men—except for the times the men were worse than the women.”
“Soon John and Livia shared their dance, and John laughed out loud when Kyle horned in and made it a three-way love sandwich.”
“Drink and dance and laugh and lie,Love, the reeling midnight through,For tomorrow we shall die!(But, alas, we never do.)”
“I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.”
“She’s just a weird woman,” I say in response.“Aren’t they all?” Cli� replies, and we laugh some because women truly are hard tofigure out sometimes.”