#recognizing irony

"Don't worry, he said to Bernard, but also, it seemed, to himself. 'As Long as I'm here, nothing will happen to us tonight.' The next morning, Bernard Dorien was found dead in the bed of his red bedroom. He had been murdered in the same way that Laurent Lavaud, the owner of the fabric shop, had, with three bullets expertly, and, in Bernard's case, silently, administered to his heart."

They listen to my story impassively...Well, maybe I didn't tell it with enough emotional oomph...

“Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. That’s fundamental rule of law, or perhaps they didn’t teach you that in the academy”

“The first item the dinner party heard was about a tank battle in Libya.”

He had announced to Kareem that he would never know happiness if Sara were not his wife. This, from the playboy of all playboys!

The girl who had once vowed she would get to the country of P and buy herself some jeans and  high heels and become a college student had somehow ended up in a large industrial plant complex with a gas storage tank system.

“That’s what makes those letters so fascinating. He felt suffocated by his family’s love, and yet he couldn’t help being a part of it.”

Misfortunes can only happen with God's permission