What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing
Willem LangeTags: humor pessimism new-england disappointment dry-humor perplexing wry
Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses
Kamila ShamsieTags: inspirational philosophical wry
The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered
Dashiell HammettVegard and Riston's job today was to guard and protect me. And considering that I was in a tower room in the Guardians' citadel, it looked like a pretty plum assignment. I mean, how much trouble could a girl get into under heavy guard in a tower room? Notice I didn't ask that question out loud. No need to rub Fate's nose in something when I'd been tempting her enough lately.
Phaelan had generously his guard services as well, just in case something happened to me that my Guardian bodyguards couldn't handle. Phaelan's guard-on-duty stance resembled his pirate-on-shore-leave stane of leaning back in a chair with his feet up, but instead of a tavern table, his boots were doing a fine job of holding down the windowsill. I don't know how I'd ever felt safe without him.
Tags: sarcasm observational-comedy wry
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. DoctorowTags: wry
You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?
Norton JusterTags: wry
His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.
Anthony PowellHe 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.
Anthony PowellTags: ironic characterization verbosity wry
The Dark Ages are alive and secretly thriving like a herpes infection among us.
Juliette FayTags: humor wry unexpected-humor observations-on-life unexpected-life
your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men are killers and
your worst men are
selling them
bullets
Tags: 1965 wry a-view-from-the-quarter march-12th
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