Wryly Quotes

#1. You see the mistakes of one system - the surveillance - and the mistakes of the other - the inequality - but there's nothing you could have done in the one and nothing you can do now about the other. She laughs wryly. And the clearer you see that, the worse you feel.

Anna Funder

#2. As Douglas Adams wryly observed in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes!

Marcus Chown

#3. Okay. Let's see..." She considered her past, and then smiled wryly and shook her head. "Well, I was a perfume maker, Amaone, concubine, a duchess, a pirate, a madam, and then a hunter."

Harper's eyebrows had slid up his forehead as she rattled of her resume.

Lynsay Sands

#4. He definitely needed to teach her how to control her emotions, he thought wryly. It wouldn't do to have her burn down the entire forest if they became more intimate.

Dima Zales

#5. You want to hide," he says. "I know. Because you feel like you're not allowed to think the things you think. Or feel the things you feel."
"Welcome to the human condition," I say wryly.

Gretchen Powell

#6. Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.

John Flanagan

#7. Do you know how lucky you are?" She smiled rather wryly. "Not most of the time.

Madeleine L'Engle

#8. I know - I'll play you for it," Alice suggested. "Rock, paper, scissors."
Jasper chuckled and Edward sighed.
"Why don't you just tell me who wins?" Edward said wryly.
Alice beamed. "I do. Excellent.

Stephenie Meyer

#9. It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.

Carl Sagan

#10. I'm totally calm. I would just like to know who marred your skin so that I can put a name and face to the creature I'm going to kill very slowly." "I think we might have different definitions of calm," I said wryly. "I've never been calmer in my life.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. You don't know the protocol for any kind of anniversary."
"Fuck you." Cam's mouth slanted into a smirk. "If you're gonna bitch, maybe I should just give you flowers and chocolate next year."
"Beats the blow-job coupons you gave me." Austin grinned wryly,
Austin & Cam

Cara Dee

#12. But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

Mary Jo Putney

#13. Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every day and was awed by it, but not nearly as much as I was by the charming, wryly amusing lover I had entirely to myself in our private moments together.

Sylvia Day

#14. If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.

Tamora Pierce

#15. It's nice to have eye candy around for my enjoyment." He looked Brad over. "It wouldn't kill you to pretty yourself up if you're going to be in my presence."
"Yeah, I'll get right on that," Brad said wryly.
"See that you do.

R.L. Mathewson

#16. Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.

Doris Lessing

#17. But believe it or not, I've actually seen these stars before." "Well, aren't you hard to impress," he said wryly.

Marissa Meyer

#18. Mortals don't see the fey. Donia smiled wryly: if they did, Keenan would never have convinced any of them to trust him.

Melissa Marr

#19. You are very unexpected, do you know that?"
"Is that your way of calling me stupid?" she asked wryly.
"If the glove fits," he said.

Diana Pharaoh Francis

#20. Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal." The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly as she cinched her pack.

Teresa Tsalaky

#21. Everyone's looking," she whispered, letting him lead her to the center of the waltzing couples, several of which moved to allow them plenty of room.
"Everyone's been looking at you all night," he said wryly. "Especially me.

Lisa Kleypas

#22. Imagine: If shifting from one universe to another is like moving up or down to parallel layers, overlapping with one universe, then going to another timeline is like taking a jump to the left.'
'Or a step to the right,' Jena said wryly.

E.C. Myers

#23. I'm Kyran. I'm usually the one who keeps him in line," he said as he motioned to Talin.
That made Neve's smile widen. "You need to keep a better eye on him."
"I know," Kyran replied wryly.

Donna Grant

#24. Please," she whispered, sounding more frantic. "Don't leave me down in these chasms alone."
He smiled wryly. "Is it really this hard for you to let me win one single argument?"
"Yes!

Brandon Sanderson

#25. Keep away, keep away," Hungry Joe screamed. "I said keep away, keep away, you goddam stinking lousy son of a bitch." "At least we found out what he dreams about," Dunbar observed wryly. "He dreams about goddam stinking lousy sons of bitches.

Joseph Heller

#26. In Parliament a fellow MP whispered to him that his trousers were unfastened. "It makes no difference," Winston replied wryly. "The dead bird doesn't leave the nest.

William Manchester

#27. Finally I said, my words soft, "How did you get so wise, Effie?" "I've survived seventy-seven years on this planet," she answered wryly, "and by making the right choices I even managed to live for most of them.

Samantha Young

#28. There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#29. Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.

David Eddings

#30. Have you noticed how few men in the peerage are young and nice-looking?" Lillian asked wryly. "Most of them are dull-witted, ancient, or possess the kind of face that should have a hook in its mouth.

Lisa Kleypas

#31. Then she looked at the man on the tree and she smiled wryly. "They just aren't as interesting naked," she said. "It's the unwrapping that's half the fun. Like with gifts, and eggs.

Neil Gaiman

#32. Maybe he doesn't want to go back," I countered. "Maybe he likes it here."
"With a snack like you hanging on his sleeve, I'm sure he does," he replied wryly.

Shelly Crane

#33. Feet pue tan!" she shouted.
Ty cleared his throat, looking at Zane wryly. "She just called me a goddamned son of a bitch."
"I like her," Zane responded.

Abigail Roux

#34. Sarene laughed wryly. You love me, Father - no parent wants to admit that is daughter is unattractive. The truth of the matter is, no man wants an intelligent wife.

Brandon Sanderson

#35. Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly, werewolf gotta have a pack?" I said wryly.

Carrie Vaughn

#36. No, thanks," Ty responded wryly. "I prefer not to be a moron."
"I'm flattered. I've moved up from idiot to moron," Zane said. "And you have moved from utterly reprehensible asshole to only moderately annoying asshole.

Abigail Roux

#37. I don't regret a single second that I spent with you." I smiled wryly at him. "No time spent with you is wasted.

S.C. Stephens

#38. The doctors had been impressed that I was even alive. When I had asked one of them approximately how much blood I had lost, he had responded wryly with "most of it.

Larry Correia

#39. A fool's tongue," Bruce Waltke wryly notes, "is long enough to cut his own throat."4

John Piper