Lee Irby > Quotes

“Life often lulls us to sleep, makes us drowsy with the promise of unbroken tranquillity, only to stir us from our peaceful slumber with thunderous claps of doom that at first sound like the gentle drops of an afternoon shower, quickly growing in intensity until we can hear nothing else but the thud of dread.”
― Lee Irby, Unreliable: A Novel

“Scotch tape is a miracle of progress.”
― Lee Irby, The Up and Up: A Novel

“If the human species evolved to be an honest one, then why is our frontal cortex so immense and capable of inventing entire landscapes that are utterly false?”
― Lee Irby, Unreliable: A Novel

“Lies form the volcanoes from which truth erupts in great spurting spasms of hellacious lava, and I do apologize for the sexual overtones of that imagery.”
― Lee Irby, Unreliable: A Novel

“Nothing reveals the paucity of imagination like an unforeseen crisis.”
― Lee Irby, Unreliable: A Novel

“The staircase cascades down to the platform like a black waterfall of steel and rivets.”
― Lee Irby, 7,000 Clams: A Novel

“Way to go Joey! You made us all proud down in Florida!”
― Lee Irby, 7,000 Clams: A Novel

“—there was a time when I never, ever considered the possibility that I could be wrong! Such heady times! To be so in love with yourself!




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― Lee Irby, Unreliable: A Novel

“He gave me some sage mystery/thriller advice, before he stopped taking or returning my calls, namely that I should, whenever possible, use violence to propel the plot.”
― Lee Irby, Unreliable: A Novel