Joking Quotes

“Auri," I asked slowly, "are you joking with me?"
She looked up and grinned. "Yes I am," she said proudly. "Isn't it wonderful?”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Haley took a deep breath and said,“I’m gay.”“You’re gay?” the obnoxious guy who’d been sniffing around her and bugging the heck out of her in line for the past ten minutes repeated. “Are you sure?”“Yes, I’m sure.”He looked thoughtful for a moment. “Well, do you think the two of you would want to-“
“No,” she said firmly.
“But what if I-“
“No.”
“Come on, you won’t let me finish. I have this camera-“
“No.”
“It would be fun-“
“No.”
“But what if-“
“She said no,”Jason said as he cut in line and threw his arm around her shoulders in that lazy way of his.
“Hey! I thought you said you were gay!” the man said accusingly.Without missing a beat Jason said, “She is. I’m just her bitch.”
― R.L. Mathewson

“When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“You can find something funny in anything! I'm sick as a dog and falling to bits, but I'll give up joking only after I give up the ghost! my last gasp! The proof, here, with only an eighth of a glimmer of light, things oozing out of my asshole, my armpits, and the elbows, too, blood coming out of the eyes, from the soupy mess of my grave, me whistling a tune, that's what you'll hear! A regular blackbird!”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Fable for Another Time

“Don’t be too nice to him,” I teased. “He’ll never leave.”
― Juliet Blackwell, Hexes and Hemlines

“Он вообще на удивление быстро свыкся с мыслью, что рядом с ним шагает труп. Даже удивляться перестал, здраво рассудив, что у каждого свои недостатки, главное, чтоб человек был хороший. А живой он, мертвый ли, в носу ковыряет или на мостовую на площади перед зданием Совета плюет, это уже мелочи.”
― Михаил Костин, Живое и мёртвое