favorite book quote?

eleanorquantifier · **Posts:** 13 **Joined:** Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:46 pm

Of course I told her it was all right, and I drove the nail into the wall and hung the framed print, and it reminds me that other people are mysterious, no matter how much we get to know them. I will never understand why that picture spoke to Marjorie, that picture more than any other, but it’s all right; that’s the lesson. The surface of the print is flat, it can’t hide what it is, a print and not a painting, but the subject is this roiling sea, over vast unknowable depths.
That’s what we all are for one another, flat surfaces on which some turbulence can be seen, but unknowable depths. It doesn’t matter that I’ll never know Marjorie very deeply;
I know her enough to know I love her, and that’s enough.

-Donald Westlake, in “The Ax”

Syrill · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:12 am

"...a mine is a terrible thing to waste."

Elizabeth Moon-Marque and Reprisal

Well, some might got it, others might not, and then there's people like me

Tyrannitar · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:07 am

'That's because I wrote the shorthand notes in Polish!'
Polish?!?!?!
-Sydelle Pulaski, the Westing Game

'(insert stuff about being drunk here) I won't envy you in the morning.'
-Saphira, Eragon

'Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all do,'
-Hermione, Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix

'Say something,'
'Boom!'
Ed Plum wrote down, 'Table 1: Boom'
-Jake Wexler talking to Madame 'Sunny' Hoo, the Westing Game

.:Requiem:. · **Posted:** Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:02 pm

Shadowfare wrote:

"We are promised nothing except the last breath"

Tad Williams((RAWKZ!)), War of the Flowers

That's mine as well.

Smart Duck · **Posted:** Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:55 am

I just finished the Hitchiker series, but I can never remember any quotes! :cry:

But they were good. Just laugh.

Asthaloth · **Posts:** 4284 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 5:48 am

in the begining the universe was created.
this has made alot of people angry and is widely regarded as a bad decision.

hows that

though my favorite is the gods last message to his creations.
"sorry for the inconveniance"

Shadowfare · **Posts:** 692 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 4:29 pm

There was a light at the end of the tunnel, it was a flamethrower.

Mort in Terry Pratchetts Mort.

Smart Duck · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:35 am

Setekh wrote:

in the begining the universe was created.
this has made alot of people angry and is widely regarded as a bad decision.

hows that

though my favorite is the gods last message to his creations.
"sorry for the inconveniance"

Pretty good.

How about "The wall defied the imagination, seduced and defeated it."

"The thing that really caught them off guard was the bathtub."

Metatwaddle · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:49 am

Setekh - Go you. Discworld is teh awesome.

The best quote I can think of at the moment is "Five exclamation marks: the surest sign of a diseased mind."

From Reaper Man, I think.

CrewWolf · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:40 am

More Pratchett quotes because my sig and avatar at the best evar

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Quote:

Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha!
BEWARE!!!!!
Yrs sincerely
The Opera Ghost
-Maskerade

Quote:

"Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with minimum amount of moo. And I am afraid to say that these days all I get is moo."
-Jingo

Quote:

"It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing."
-Guards! Guards!

Quote:

"Getting an education is a alot like a communicable sexual disease. It makes you unsuitable for alot of jobs and then you have the urge to pass it on."
-Hogfather

Quote:

"What're quantum mechanics?"
- "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose."
-Eric

Quote:

"People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else."
-Guards! Guards!

Quote:

People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable.
-Men At Arms

Asthaloth · **Posts:** 4284 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 5:48 am

Miss Padfoot wrote:

Setekh - Go you. Discworld is teh awesome.

its from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?
mostly harmless if i mind doesnt deceive me.

Quote:

"The warlord that commands the host that attacks my fortress is a sorcerer and has many magickers attending him."
"i will kill him and rend his soul for all eternity!" promised the heart of blood, turning and smashing its way through the tear in the mountain of Kahalan-Ghol before dissapearing from sight.
Honsou clambered over to the crack torn in the rock and looked out over the smoke wreathed mountain-side, watching with undisguised amusement as the unstoppable daemon smashed into the front line of Toramino's army.
"yes" he laughed" you go do that..."

From 'Dead sky, Black sun' by graham mcneill.

maybe its just me, but i giggled like an albeit nuts, school-girl when i read that :lol:

Paul · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:43 pm

Setekh wrote:

Miss Padfoot wrote:

Setekh - Go you. Discworld is teh awesome.

its from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?
mostly harmless if i mind doesnt deceive me.

I can't remember if the first quote is, but the second one is.

Asthaloth · **Posts:** 4284 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 5:48 am

yeah, its the intro to mostly harmless.
o_O

yes, because it has a releveance to the guy who had to tell the whole truth and the eventual finding of gods last message.

Metatwaddle · **Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:47 am

Dang. I don't usually get them mixed up... it's the sort of thing Terry Pratchett would say, though.

Both Hitchhiker's and Discworld are hilarious.

goddess_Hekate · **Posted:** Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:14 pm

Jenny gave me a lollipop. But I hit her in the face with it~ Dangerous Girls by RL Stine

(There are alot more quotes like this I'll add them later.)

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