“ Life is just there, to be made the best of, until it isn't. And that's all right, too. ”
I let one of the men rename me. A man gave me the name Rose – you didn’t know that, did you, Poke?…He said, this man, he said that Kwan was too hard to remember, even though it’s a good name and it means ‘spirit,’ and that the rose was the queen of flowers and I was the queen of Patpong.” She laughs, rough as a cough. “The queen of Patpong. A kingdom of whores and viruses. Death with a smile.
~ Timothy Hallinan
The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.
