#irony

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. ↗

#irony #layers #paradox #simple #surface

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. ↗

Hell is cold. Do you remember when you told me that? We were in the cellars of the Dark House. Anyone else would have been panicking, but you were as calm as a governess, telling me Hell was covered in ice. If it is the fire of Heaven that takes you from me, what a cruel irony that would be. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #page- #irony

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums. ↗

— Rick Allen

#before #course #drums #i #interest

He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'. ↗

— Mark Twain

#irony #wit #experience

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#history #irony #tourists #wars #win

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#being happy #happy #irony #much #people

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#book #childhood #comfort #death #drums

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. ↗