My favorite line in a book. Ever.

[JKPolk]

So, I was reading Soul Music by Pratchett the other night when I had to stop myself. I backed up a paragraph, and reread it.
"Was that a physics joke right there?"

I reread it again.
"Holy ****, that was a physics joke right there!"

The ground skimmed past faster, and it crept over her that the horse was going a lot faster now, a full gallop instead of the easy canter. A bunching of muscle...

... and then the sky ahead of her erupted blue for a moment.

Behind her, unseen because light was standing around red with embarrassment, asking itself what had happened, a pair of hoofprints burned in the air for a moment and then faded.

Quick, quick gogog your favorite lines from books/movies that aren't generic.

[sumzup]

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Holy hell Doppler. That was amazing.

[s0ulst0n3]

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I'm not sure what generic is, so if this is one.. then sorry. XP

Dark Tower I - The Gunslinger

Jake Chambers: Go, then. There are other worlds then these.

Always loved that line for some reason. ^^

[sumzup]

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soulstone: pretty generic (commonplace, not rare), but it sounds cool.

I'm not sure I have any favorite lines, but ones I like include: anything from Don Quixote, the line from the one book that mentions a village called Valdberghoof-trarbk-dikdorff, and in general I find lines from old literature to be awesome.

Edit: 400th post get in a svelte thread!

[Tasselfoot]

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I've always been partial to Yoda... "do or do not, there is no try."

other good ones... from Hamlet... "This above all — to thine ownself be true;"

Sun Tzu's The Art of War has TONS of great quotes... "To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." and "The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory."

there are tons more that i can't think of... recalling cool stuff when called upon to do it is hard.

[sumzup]

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Damn, I totally forgot about Sun Tzu. That is one of my favorite books that I haven't read yet xD. One skim through, and you know it's amazing; I just haven't had time to read it + I forgot about it.

The most hilarious quote of all time is Darth Vader, SW EP:III - "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"

[JKPolk]

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Yeah, sorry Tass I shoulda given a weeks' notice before making the thread.

Soulstone: Gunslinger has some good lines. It's just a shame that King doesn't keep his strength through the rest of the books.

[Mans0n]

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yep, in the book i read ''calico Captive''
from an indian he said:
''wat we gonnuh do wit da white gurl''
lolol, made me laugh alot.

[s0ulst0n3]

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Soulstone: Gunslinger has some good lines. It's just a shame that King doesn't keep his strength through the rest of the books.

Well, the last 3 were kind of rushed (All within 1 year of each other). I personally liked Gunslinger and Drawing Of The Three.

[sarahxjane]

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Jacob Black - Eclipse
"I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun."

Sayuri - Memoirs Of A Geisha
"If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in life, you're sad to see it end, and yet you still feel grateful that it happened."

Susie Salmon - The Lovely Bones
"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent - that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life."



To be honest, I haven't really written down any of the quotes I like.
It's sad that I have so few favorites, being an avid reader and all.

[All_That_Chaz]

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First sentence of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."


Tolstoy has gems everywhere in everything he writes.

[stretchypanda]

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=( All my books are in storage.

Except Napoleon's Buttons, which has some clever science quips.

[esupin]

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At the end of the platform, my grandmother is waiting. When I see her, I forget. What I thought I was going to say.
Then it must have been a lie, my mother said.

-Amy Hempel, Tom-Rock Through the Eels. Hempel comes up with the greatest one-liners. They lose some of their meaning when placed out of context, but whatever.

...I am only eight years old and Ronnie Crown is right. Crown is always right. I am wasting my life. I am being forced to. The bastards. The mothers are robbing me and calling it good.

-Dow Mossman, The Stones of Summer

[jono2007]

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From YIR.

"I never understood how it was that you could stare a girl in the eye during sex, knowing what was coming, and understanding it. That might just be my inability to comprehend anything, actually..."

[Corbin Wells]

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"All people have hidden motives behind their actions, it is the way of the world"
--Eragon (I'm not sure if Brom said it or the dragon Eragon.