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Tag: humor, irony

Lois McMaster Bujold

Anyway, if the Cetagandans really wanted to assassinate you, they’d hardly do it here. They’d slip something subtle under your skin that wouldn’t go off for six months, and then would drop you mysteriously and untraceably in your tracks

Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!

He sure put things into words good.

I’m not sure how people drink out of skulls,” Jinx added. Calvin had too many holes in him to make a good cup.

What I’am learning is the world laughs through its ass every day, then just lies double-time when shit goes down. It’s like we’re on a Pritikin diet of fucken lies. I mean – what kind of fucken life is this?

Robert Galbraith

You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike

Roberto Bolaño

… the novel, arguably the author’s best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile.

There was one floor that was all gynecologists. They could tell by the remnants of weird optical contraptions- all the convoluted tools men use when they’re searching for the source of their anxieties.

Andrzej Sapkowski

For I must tell you, gentle reader, that Geralt the Witcher was always a modest, prudent and composed man, with a soul as simple and uncomplicated as the shaft of a halberd.

The book didn’t want to be copied?I should introduce it to the house that doesn’t want any occupants.

Patricia Cornwell

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn’t it?

Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, “I can’t wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered,” and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.