“The Dark Ages are alive and secretly thriving like a herpes infection among us.” — Juilette Fay Copy Share Image
No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
“your best men are drunks and your worst men are locking them up, your best men are killers and your worst men… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education." — Peter Hilton Copy Share Image
If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour. — Ken Bruen Copy Share Image
As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Sai stands in his spineless way, young but antiquated, studious but not clever, a thick steel watch on his wrist, his oiled… — Manu Jospeh Copy Share Image
I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When you say ‘old friend,’ are we talking, like...since the Ice Age?” “No. Of course not.” “Oh.” “It’s only been about four… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody knows what it… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic… — Willem Lange Copy Share Image
I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to… — Charles Harper Webb Copy Share Image
Ringo, the last to become a Beatle, came into the group not because I wanted him, but because the boys did. To… — Brian Epstein Copy Share Image
Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us,… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby,… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass… — Tim Maleeny Copy Share Image
Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
“Vegard and Riston's job today was to guard and protect me. And considering that I was in a tower room in the… — Lisa Shearin Copy Share Image
“She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.” — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
You don't have to echo my feelings, Mencheres, but you can't talk me out of them either. I love you" Her smile… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Five years off my life... I wondered with a wry smile, would people be immortal if they didn't have kids? — Malorie Blackman Copy Share Image
“His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's… — John McLeod Copy Share Image
I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied,… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It… — Frederick Barthelme Copy Share Image
the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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