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
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
We'll meet you here. Hopefully everyone will be in human form." A wry smile. "Though I'll warn you, he's not a whole… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Ethel said: "Lloyd, there's someone here you may remember-" Daisy could not restrain herself. She ran to Lloyd and threw herself into… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Oh, Callie-mine," Anne said, her voice taking on a tone she'd used when Callie was a little girl and crying over some… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that I’d be typecast, although I was. And I never thought of the role as a commercial… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles.… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave." I yawn. "So very long as that?" When he answers, there… — R.L. LaFevers Copy Share Image
I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting.… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
No further issues with Corinne Bishop or her kin in Detroit?” “Hunter didn’t seem to be concerned,” Gideon replied. “Said he had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
