What's something that really stuck out for you? Or made you really think of how it applies to you?

Mine would have to be from The Catcher in the Rye.

Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.

Hmmmm I'm not sure. I read too many books to think of just one quote...

My absolute favorite that I quote constantly is from Dragonlance:

"Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it.”

by Raistlin Majere ^^

Mine comes from Robin Hobb's Golden Fool

"We could have gone our entire lives and never had this conversation. Now you have doomed us both to remember it forever."

Mine's from Winnie the Pooh, but I don't know how to do quotes yet. :(

..and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed Milk with your bread? he was so excited that he said "Both," and then, so as not to seem to greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the bread, please"

I so often feel like poor old Pooh, I get excited about yummy treats then worry that I seem greedy. Everyone else seems to know the proper etiquette!

Gosh, I have so many!

But one of the ones that really struck a chord with me is this one from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde:

The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.

Not for pictures, as I can't draw or paint for buttons, but my written work. Back at uni I wrote a few pieces and my tutor (who was also an editor) wanted to pass them on to be published. There were a couple of pieces that I just couldn't do that with, I couldn't even keep them in my portfolio. They were too personal, there was too much of "me" in them, to allow them to be available to anyone who happened upon them. Letting people read them is like letting them see me naked.

Oh, my, I have pages and pages on Microsoft Word dedicated purely to my favorite quotes. I've gotten into the habit of dogearing books as I read them. People ask me why every other page is turned down, and my only excuse is, "It's a good book, ifyouknowwhatImean."

I suppose that the best books are the ones that tell you what you already know. For me, those books would be the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, and the Attolia series by Megan Whalen Turner. (I actually get my screen name from Mrs. Turner, haha.)

For that reason, my favorite quote is from The Queen of Attolia.

"Stop whining," Eugenides said.
"What?" Eddis's expression shifted from wary to puzzled.
“That was their message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach me to go hide in a temple.”

My favorite is from Markus Zusak's book I Am the Messenger...

"I'm not the messenger at all.
I'm the message. "

No idea why I always have this line stuck in my head but here it is. From 'Song of Ice and Fire' by George R.R. Martin.

"I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples, bastards, and broken things."

- Tyrion Lannister.

Ok, here's mine for today.

"Haven't you heard? Boys don't cry"
"No, they don't. But I've learned something recently. Real men do."

Yeah, it's cheesy, and cliche. But I liked it, it fit the story well. The book is "Boys don't cry" (surprise surprise) by Malorie Blackman.

It's hard to think of one specific quote, but practically anything anyone says in any books by Douglas Adams should count.

"It’s unpleasantly like being drunk."
"What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water."

That's from the first book - probably the best in the series, at least in my opinion.

Some of my favorite quotes from Carmilla:

You are mine, you shall be mine, and you and I are one forever.

Darling, darling, I live in you; and you would die for me, I love you so.

Let's see if that hack Stephenie Meyer top that! :P

Elodin continued to stare him down. "Alder Whin is not to be confined. He may come and go as he pleases. Nothing is to be put in his food unless he specifically asks for it. I am holding you responsible for this, Timothy Generoy." Elodin poked him in the chest with a long finger. "If I find out that whin has been sedated or restrained, I'll ride you naked through the streets of Imre like a little pink pony." He glared. "Go."
The fellow left as quickly as he could manage without actually breaking into a run.

Elodin, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

Just one of the many funny things the character Elodin says.

There's plenty of quotes that stick to my brain but the ones that really hit me are:

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

But they all looked strange to me, men and women, well as I knew them. Their voices sounded strange: too deep, too shrill. They were like a troupe of great, strange animals, of two different species; great apes with intelligent eyes, all of them in rut, in kemmer...

I read this book at the beginning of this years summer vacation. Never thought I would be really interested in it but in the end it's one of my top favorite books. It was fun to read how the world may have been if everyone was both male and female.

Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

People always think something's all true

I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life.

Catcher in the Rye is my favorite book. The last quote there was the reason why I looked into the novel, Ghost in the Shell. I love the Laughing Man so I figured I may as well read what was behind his symbol.

Sadly, I don't remember that many quotes from the books I've read. I'll have to rifle through them and get back to you... :(

My dear, I don't give a damn.

This quote summarizes everything I love in one certain book. (Hint for kiddos who were born in this century; Gone with the wind. And yes, in the book Rhett doesn't say "Frankly---" or at least it wasn't in the Finnish translation...)
This kind of books are so rare nowadays, I'm actually afraid of going into a library anymore because the new books are filled with perfect Mary-Sues. I feel that the writers of today have no ------ to make mean, spoiled, selfish and unperfect main characters. Or wait, never read the book but I remember seeing that Twilight's Bella being an - when the little girl was killed in the movie. Did she even offer to die for her?

Meh, whatever, this quote is the best anyway. It makes me understand that you can do anything with the main character, even ruin her/his life, and still have a perfect ending without the happy life etc. And it is a special one, never seen anything like that in the end of a book. :O

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

By the end of this scene, Mond damn near had me convinced to give up being viviparous and start taking soma.

I would honestly think that one of the most memorable quotes from a book would have to be Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle

I hope your bacon burns

do not ask me why I love that quote or think it is still hilarious even as I'm writing this but...yeah. Another one again from Howl's Moving Castle from the Royal Magician Howl himself

"Not likely!" Howl yelled, "Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!"

that just makes me feel like a person can always find a way around their weaknesses...and also this is so sweet I think when Howl and Sophie are arguing at the end

Howl said, "I think we ought to live happily ever after,"..."It should be hair raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me," said Howl.

that's just too adorable :) and I also like how Calcifer when he comes back he says,

I don't mind as long as I can come and go," Calcifer said. "Besides, it's raining out there in Market Chipping."

All in all its a great book and I'm sixteen found this book last year and I'm reading it for the fourth time <3

The quote that has always stuck out too me was the quote said by Winston Churchill around world war II. The quote says

"The only way for evil to triumph is for good men to stand around and do nothing" I can really relate to it because I feel that a lot of the worlds problems is due to people not caring or they are too lazy to gather together to try and make the world better environmentally and financially.

The quote is actually

All that is needed for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

and it's attributed to Edmund Burke, though it seems to be paraphrased, possibly from this behemoth.

It is not enough in a situation of trust in the commonwealth, that a man means well to his country; it is not enough that in his single person he never did an evil act, but always voted according to his conscience, and even harangued against every design which he apprehended to be prejudicial to the interests of his country. This innoxious and ineffectual character, that seems formed upon a plan of apology and disculpation, falls miserably short of the mark of public duty. That duty demands and requires that what is right should not only be made known, but made prevalent; that what is evil should not only be detected, but defeated. When the public man omits to put himself in a situation of doing his duty with effect it is an omission that frustrates the purposes of his trust almost as much as if he had formally betrayed it. It is surely no very rational account of a man's life, that he has always acted right but has taken special care to act in such a manner that his endeavours could not possibly be productive of any consequence.

I don't know that Churchill ever actually said it, and if he did, he cribbed it. Not to say that Churchill didn't have a fair few great soundbytes during the war. My favorite was

If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.

I digress at this point, however, as the topic is about book quotes.

The most memorable quote that I have would be from 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee.

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

That;s one of my favourite quotes, and in every essay that I wrote about the book, I really hit home with that quote and went into laborious detail of its importance.

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."

~ Charlie from The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

"So it goes."

~ Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The most memorable quote from Slaughterhouse Five was

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I've been on a rather depressing novel kick lately for class. Here's a bon mot from Nineteen Eighty-four

"By itself," he said, "pain is not always enough. There are occasions when a human being will stand out against pain, even to the point of death. But for everyone there is something unendurable -- something that cannot be contemplated. Courage and cowardice are not involved. If you are falling from a height it is not cowardly to clutch at a rope. If you have come up from deep water it is not cowardly to fill your lungs with air. It is merely an instinct which cannot be destroyed. It is the same with the rats. For you, they are unendurable. They are a form of pressure that you cannot withstand, even if you wished to. You will do what is required of you."