My favorite line in a book. Ever.

[bluguerrilla]

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Honestly, there are a lot of books where while I'm reading it I stop and go 'wow that was a really perfect paragraph' or something like that but I never write it down or take note of it...

One of my favorite and easy to remember lines is from As I Lay Dying and it's:

"My mother is a fish."

[benguino]

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I really hate to read unless its something really intersesting then I would be stuck to that book. Trying for english honors class next year though wish me luck! (I am currently in GT [Gifted and Talented which is one below Honors but one above regular english])

[eric25]

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Romeo and Juliet
"Bring me my longsword ho!"

[smartdude1212]

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It's this one quote about freedom from 1984 that I can't seem to recall... I love Orwell.

[rzr]

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Well, if screen writes count, then mine would be from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith: "So, this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause?"

- Padme Amedala

[Adamaja456]

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The last paragraph in Consent To Kill by Vince Flynn
Just so you know whats going on, Rapp shoved a phosphorus grenade in Rashid's mouth.



Rapp got right in his face and said,"Fu*k you! And fu*k your sick, twisted, perversion of Islam." Rapp yanked the pin and walked away. Three seconds later there was a pop followed by a blinding white flash, and then Rashid's head literally melted from his body.

[MalDON]

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"My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur. "
-Cat's Cradle.

"Sally in the garden,
Siftin' through the cinders,
Lifted up her arse,
And farted like a man,
The busting of her britches broke fifteen windows,
The cheeks of her ass went (bam, bam, bam)"
-Jailbird

This one is not short, but you need the entire quote:
"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
-Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

[robertsona]

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I am no one.
But tonight on North Line Road.
GOD led me to you.
So you could live.
And Bring back someone else.
-The Echo Maker

[Mookage]

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Yippee Kiay motha ****a - Die Hard


It's funny, my friend and I had this conversation at school today.

[sarahxjane]

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Yippee Kiay motha ****a - John McClane ( Die Hard )

I love that quote too, and the entire Die Hard series.

I didn't know it was based off a novel though.

Oops.



And fix'd.

[JKPolk]

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Hahahah, MalDON, that farting one had me going for a bit.