“Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.”

“I wired my gas pedal to my stereo, so now when I crank up the volume the car accelerates.”

“Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.”

“Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.”

“Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.”

“Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling. Sometimes she thought that she might have cranked it all the way up and broken the dial before the music had even started.”