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  1. William Goldman _ The Princess Bride

    I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.''Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.
    book-quoteironytiredthe-princess-bride

  2. Adrian McKinty _ Police at the Station and They

    If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles, and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings, Belfast has trained many of the best gunshot-trauma surgeons in the world.
    book-quoteironyireland

  3. Harold Bloom _ How to Read and Why

    Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony, I suggest that the recovery of the ironic might be our fifth principle for the restoration of reading. ... But with this principle, I am close to despair, since you can no more teach someone to be ironic than you can instruct them to become solitary. And yet the loss of irony is the death of reading, and of what had been civilized in our natures.
    book-quoteironyideology

  4. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    Humor is hard to catch in a second language. Especially when you're as serious a young man as Giovanni. He said to me the other night, 'When you are ironic, I am always behind you. I am slower. It is like you are the lightning and I am the thunder.
    book-quoteironylanguage

  5. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social nature and fully embrace my inner Key Hostess - only then could I become The Quiet Girl in the Back of the Temple, after all?
    book-quotelifeirony

  6. George Lakoff _ Philosophy in the Flesh: The

    Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.
    book-quoteironymetaphorsmetaphysics

  7. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me.{...} On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession.
    book-quotehumanityironyegocentrism

  8. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
    book-quotelifeirony

  9. Markus Zusak _ Fighting Ruben Wolfe

    You know,' she begins, 'you fellas ought to be looking after each other.' Her comment makes me realise that through the lies, the greatest irony is that we are looking out for each other. It's just that in the end, we're letting her down. That's what injures us.
    book-quoteironyliesletting-her-down

  10. Adam Rex _ The True Meaning of Smekday

    Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind. {...} 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' {It had been five months.} 'Long time have the Boov suffered under the hostileness and intolerableness of you people. With sad hearts I now concede that Boov and humans will never to exist as one.' I remember being really excited at this point. Could I possibly be hearing right? Were the Boov about to leave? I was so stupid.'And so now I generously grant you Human Preserves - gifts of land that will be for humans forever, never to be taken away again, now.' {...} So that's when we Americans were given Florida. One state for three hundred million people. There were going to be some serious lines for the bathrooms.
    book-quotehumorironyusa

  11. Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind

    Oh - a diamond ring - and Rhett, do buy a great big one!"
    book-quoteironyjewellery

  12. Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre

    What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
    book-quotelovesarcasmwomen
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