#irony

What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done!” And—bang! ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#devil #irony #imagination

He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping. ↗

— Tad Williams

#irony #imagination

Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard. p 44 ↗

— Michael Perry

#imagination

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#back #buy #car #carry #cash

And after night comes day, or more night, depending on the particular time-frame you choose to apply to your perspective. ↗

— Adam Roberts

#inspirational

War is essential for peace ↗

— Ram Mohan

#inspiration #irony #peace #though #war

My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#irony-of-life #life

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true. ↗

— Stephen King

#irony #life #life

You can put anything into words, except your own life ↗

— Max Frisch

#meaning #life

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#irony #life #mothers #people #life