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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Wind's Twelve Quarters

    He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.
    book-quoteironyscience-fiction

  2. Hermann Hesse _ The Fairy Tales of Hermann

    The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both desired the same thing, namely the liberation of the oppressed, the elimination of violence, and the establishment of permanent peace.
    book-quotewarpeacehumanity

  3. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida
    book-quotemarriageironysex

  4. Paulo Coelho _ By the River Piedra I Sat Down

    God hides the fires of hell within paradise.
    book-quotegodironyhell

  5. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.
    book-quoteironysalvationself-destruction

  6. Libba Bray _ Going Bovine

    So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.
    book-quoteirony

  7. Sarah Vowell _ The Wordy Shipmates

    The irony of informing nearly naked people in a wilderness setting about the story of naked Adam and Eve eating the fruit of knowledge and inventing the fashion industry due to a sudden need for clothing to hide their shame is not lost on Williams.
    book-quoteironyhubris

  8. Khaled Hosseini _ And the Mountains Echoed

    Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.
    book-quotedangerirony

  9. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
    book-quotelifehumorirony

  10. Douglas Adams

    We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford."...""And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.""I care about lots of things," said Slartibartfast, his voice trembling partly with annoyance, but partly also with uncertainty."Such as?""Well," said the old man, "life, the Universe. Everything, really. Fjords.""Would you die for them?""Fjords?" blinked Slartibartfast in surprise. "No.
    ironysci-fi

  11. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share a Galaxy with them, not if they're just gonna keep at it, not if they're not gonna learn to relax a little. I mean it's just gonna be continual nervous time, isn't it, right? Pow, pow, pow, when are they next coming at us? Peaceful coexistence is just right out, right? Get me some water somebody, thank you."He sat back and sipped reflectively.OK," he said, "hear me, hear me. It's, like, these guys, you know, are entitled to their own view of the Universe. And according to their view, which the Universe forced on them, right, they did right. Sounds crazy, but I think you'll agree. They believe in ..."He consulted a piece of paper which he found in the back pocket of his Judicial jeans.They believe in `peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life, and the obliteration of all other life forms'.
    book-quoteironysci-fi

  12. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
    book-quotesufferingironyhysterics
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