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"I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful."

"Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘T..."

"A united front announcing a split."

"The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out."

"If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war; if the Tiber had, or if the Nile had not, risen beyond its banks; if the earth had shaken, or if..."

"My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry."

"The other shoppers were too well behaved to stare at the green-headed stoner and the tear-streaked lady zigzagging up the aisles with a chubby bearded guy scurrying behind them picking up the things t..."

"Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is..."

"Seven pillars of wisdom propping the roof of the temple. Always remember what there's beyond the pillars."