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  1. Amy Harmon _ The Law of Moses

    I didn't know if his art was helping. But Moses's pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason. Time softens memories, sanding down the rough edges of death. But Moses's pictures dripped with life and reminded us of our loss.
    book-quotedeathtruthtalent

  2. Charles Bukowski _ You Get So Alone at Times That

    sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon my bed in the dark looking upward at the ceiling i get what many will consider an obnoxious thought: it's still nice to be Bukowski.
    book-quotefunnyegoirony

  3. Charles Bukowski _ Hot Water Music

    What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
    book-quotewritinghumorsarcasm

  4. Beth Revis _ The Body Electric

    How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.
    book-quotedyingsavingironic

  5. Margaret Mitchell _ Gone With the Wind

    A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!" he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler
    book-quoteironic

  6. Anthony Powell _ A Buyer's Market

    He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now.
    book-quoteironicwryverbosity

  7. Edward Albee _ Who's Afraid of Virginia

    George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?Martha: I am, George. I am.
    book-quoteironicillusionecho

  8. Terry Pratchett _ Maskerade

    Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.
    book-quotehumorironyironic

  9. Terry Pratchett _ Maskerade

    {About sweeping}....What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.
    book-quoteironyhumorousironic

  10. Raymond Chandler _ The Long Goodbye

    Gano muchísima pasta. Tengo que ganar muchísima pasta para untar a los tipos a los que tengo que untar para ganar muchísima pasta y untar así a los tipos que tengo que untar.
    book-quoteironic

  11. Charles Dickens _ A Tale of Two Cities

    And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day."
    book-quoteinspirationaldarkironic

  12. Gillian Flynn _ Gone Girl

    They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.' It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries."
    book-quotefunnypatriotismchildhood
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