Orson Scott Card Quotes on Irony

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  1. My, but I miss the days when we never talked to each other for weeks at a time

  2. If you treat me this way, then I will treat you like a great lord, and if you do not detect the irony in my actions, then who of the two of us is the fool?

  3. He laughs, you cry... What strange animals we are.

  4. Was she being ironic? Vanya had never been able to guess about mother

  5. She focused completely, almost smolderingly, on Ruth. But there was a sense of amusement in everything she said. A sense of irony. I know something you don't know

  6. Right, of course, you're the only person in history who is completely immune to her religious upbringing.

  7. [He] did not understand it, and I did not tell him then, but you know, don't you? She began to love him then. And part of why she loved him was because he looked like you. Does it make you laugh?

  8. She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.

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