# Quote — Tom Holt, Expecting Someone Taller

> Malcolm listened to her laughter, and for the first time in his life he knew that everything was going to be all right. Niceness, he realized, it was not enough, and Love was only part of the rest. You had to have laughter, too. Laughter would make everything come out right in the end, or if it didn’t nobody would notice.

- Author: [Tom Holt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt.md)
- Book: [Expecting Someone Taller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller.md)
- Page: 228
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tom_Holt#Expecting_Someone_Taller_(1987)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/malcolm-listened-to-her

## More from this book

> Suddenly, she was not pretty at all; she looked like a thousand-year-old teenager who wanted something she knew she couldn’t have.

p. 92 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/suddenly-she-was.md)

> “Humans!” laughed the male duck. “And it’s the likes of you run the world. No wonder the rivers are full of cadmium.”

p. 178 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/humans-laughed-the.md)

> And, like many missionaries, she was not above a little persecution in the cause of the communication of Enlightenment.

p. 56 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-holt/expecting-someone-taller/and-like-many.md)