109 Quotes About Teasing

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I jokingly asked if his friends teased him for being a feather thief, but his face clouded at the word thief.“I try to refrain from certain words,” he said. “Thief is one of them. This is going to sound very strange, but I don’t feel like a thief.

Poor baby,” Jett called over to him. “You can come sit in my lap.”Renn flashed a grin. “You can sit in mine and come.

I'm actually not a vegetarian." Layla's words tumbled over one another like she'd forgotten how to use her tongue. "I like meat. Love it, in fact. I have meat every day. I pretty much grew up in my parents' restaurant and they serve meat. Which I like eating. Lamb, chicken, beef...""I think she's trying to say she's carnivorous," Sam said, biting back his laughter. "Don't make any sudden moves or she might think you're prey.

I suffer under no illusions as to the physical or the emotional effects of aging.""Now who sounds like he's old enough for some performance-enhancing drugs?"Sam gave an affronted sniff. "I have never-""I'm just teasing, Sam." She wiggled her fingers. "You're always so serious, it makes you an easy target.

Sometimes it's not self-evident whether a remark is truly meant to be hurtful or meant in the spirit of friendly teasing (or ambiguous or both at once). Between women and men, teasing is risky because playful insults are a common way of showing affection among boys and men but less so for most women—at least most American women. My husband tells me that one of the first things he learned about me was that he had to curb his impulse to tease me because I would be hurt rather than touched.

You’re on a date here?” she asked, trying to break the awkward silence. “One that’s going horribly,” Jasper said. “This guy is so pretentious I want to gag, and not in the good way.

Jasper made gagging noises. “Don’t tell me this darling child is used to eating garbage.

Fancy was a liar. She had been with Aunt Fanny and dared not admit to running away. She had not been frightened, but she enjoyed teasing people weaker than herself. Not a servant, or an animal, or any child in the village near the house, would willingly go near her.