“We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.”

“We watched each other in the candlelight and suave music, and because laughter was the only weapon we had, we laughed until the chill of his story faded, and was gone.”

“For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird”

“I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.”

“They laughed together, because laughter in number is saferthan laughter alone.”

“Without knowing I was going to, I started to laugh, a crazy laugh like Ian's the night before, and at first he looked worried, but then he started too. Even with the wind whipping past the station, even with Ian hugging his backpack to his chest for warmth, we were laughing, and not a laughter of release or a laughter that was really sadness in disguise. It was the laugh of the absurd. Your grandmother is a seventeen-year-old boy? That creepy Russian man just paid for your ticket? Ferret-Glo?”