@Sforzando: I believe it was Abraham that said the quote about biting the thumb.

Originally Posted by Shiki Nekozawa

@Sforzando: I believe it was Abraham that said the quote about biting the thumb.

Thank you very much. XD I don't remember Abraham because I stopped reading after the first scene. We were supposed to read it freshman year. But the biting the thumb thing has always stuck with me. That, and those soliloquies.


Oh, and I just found my favorite Shakespeare quote! By Benedick from Much Ado.

Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that.

"... a thousand times I've see her still. But all that's left is my sorrow. 'Til days and dawns fade down to none. Thank you for the once undone."

Don't remember what its from.
Also:

"Percentages Mother you know I don't do math." I've personally seen Macy do Linear Algebra in her head once mastering our friend Liz's system so...

Don't Judge a Girl by her Cover

I have a lot of favorites, but I will name the ones I think are the most noteworthy.

"True as Toasted Toads"

said by Zed in Wizard's First Rule, by Terry Goodkind.

"the bottom line is that COMMUNISM IS BAD FOR YOUR EYES!!! oh, i meant television. i get those two confused."

said by the cat dude in Bizenghast (I know that's a manga, but it's still an awesome quote).

She looked at me as if I had just come up from the floor of the ocean with a drowned mermaid under my arm.

I was on what had formerly been my hands and knees. No sensation proved it.

There was no wall, no desk. Then there was no floor. There was nothing at all.
I wasn't even there.

"No hard feelings at all Captain. No feelings at all."

And when she spoke her voice had the lucid emptiness of that mechanical voice on the telephone that gives you the time and if you keep on listening, which people don't because they have no reason to, it will keep on telling you the passing seconds forever without the slightest change of inflection.

Maybe it's the TV commercials. They make you hate everything they try to sell. God, they must think the public is a halfwit. Every time some jerk in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck holds up some toothpaste or a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of beer or a mouthwash or a jar of shampoo or a little box of something that makes a fat wrestler smell like mountain lilac I always make a note never to buy any. Hell, I wouldn't buy the product even if I liked it.

..and right then a dream walked in. It seemed to me for an instant that that there was no sound in the bar, that the sharpies stopped sharping and the drunk on the stool stopped burbling away, and it was like just after the conductor taps on his music stand and raises his arms and holds them poised.

I stared. She caught me staring. She lifted her glance half an inch and I wasn't there anymore. But wherever I was I was holding my breath.

She makes the helpless gesture and has that goddamned headache and you would like to slug her except that you are glad you found out about the headache before you invested too much time and money and hope in her. Because the headache will always be there, a weapon that never wears out and is as deadly as the bravo's rapier or Lucrezia's poison vial.

The light went off and so did I.

I put out an arm, hoping he wouldn't pull it off and throw it in the lake.

Yesterday was a hundred years ago, something frozen in time, like a fly crystallized in amber.

"You are a stupid man, Degarmo. Everything you do is stupid, and done in a stupid way."

I smelled of gin. Not just casually as if I had taken 4 or 5 drinks of a winter morning to get out of bed on, but as if the pacific ocean was pure gin and I had nosedived off the boat deck.

All said or thought by Phillip Marlowe, from Raymond Chandler's detective stories. There are so many more amazing quotes from these books, but I just picked my favorites.

"Could I have another dimention of space, and also the tombs and the dead women, please?
That's a tall order, but i'll see what i can do. I could throw in some sacrificial virgins as well, with metal breastplates and silver ankle chains and diaphanous vestments. And a pack of ravening wolves, extra."

"on the planet of-- not Saturn, it's too close. On the planet Zycron..."

"One look at a banana and you know it came from outer space."

from The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood.

Originally Posted by carzeebear

hmmmm... from Tricksters Queen by Tamora Pierce.



-Nawat (I hope I got the quote right.. I just love it for its logic.

Ahhh, I love that book! :boogie:

Mine:

I know I love you. Maybe I always have.

:heart:

-Daine from "The Immortals" series by Tamora Pierce

My most favorite book in the entire freaking world is Infinite Jest. :) It's 981 pages long, 1079 with footnotes. And it's just full of great quotes.

-I am not what you see and hear.

-Hal creatively visualizes that Smith's velvety backhand is him slo-mo slapping Evan Ingersoll into the opposite wall.

-Jogging is painful and pointless, but you are not in charge. Your brother gets to ride shotgun while a senile German blows BBs at your legs both of them laughing and screaming Schnell.

-Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere that Mary went, the lights became erratic.

-'Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen I now believe that only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away.'
'But how do you know they're monsters, then?'
'That's the monstrosity right there, Boo, I'm starting to think.'
'Golly Ned.'
'That they walk among us. Teach our children. Inscrutable. Brass-faced.'

-...Rickey of Brandeis U., now deceased, who used to wow Hal and Mario in Weston by taking off his vest without removing his suit jacket, which M. Pemulis years later exposed as a cheap parlor-trick-exploitation of certain basic features of continuous functions, which revelation Hal mourned in a Santa's-not-real type of secret way, and which Mario simply ignored, preferring to see the vest thing as plain magic.

EDIT: Oh ho ho, I have another quote from Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater.

To the wall, he said, "Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter's mouth."
The door cracked open and both of us jumped with matching nervous laughs.
"Is that you, Grace?" Mom's voice called lightly from the hallway. "Or are you a burglar?"
"Burglar." I called back.
"I'm going to wet myself," Sam whispered in my ear.

"Xhiong ni talquoi"
"What?"
"I have no Idea."
"Must be gibberish."
"Its not gibberish, Its fluent Japnisrian"
"Its what?"
"Japanese, Korean, Chinese."
"That makes OH so much sense."

From Thirty Years

“People who think dying is the worst thing don’t know a thing about life.”

From The Secret Life of Bees

It was a pleasure to burn.
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.

The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!

Both by Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451. There are more, but those were the most prominent lol.

"Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!"

"Well, I had one that I was playing Quidditch the other night," said Ron, screwing up his face in an effort to remember. "What do you think that means?"
"Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry, turning the pages of The Dream Oracle without interest.

It's been too long since there was a quote! D: So I put some more favs of mine in :) Both are in Harry Potter books by JK Rowling <3

My favourite quotes all come from the books of Mitch Albom.

Tuesdays with Morries

"We've got a sort of brainwashing going on in our country," Morrie sighed. "Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all of this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.
Wherever I went in my life, I met people wanting to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you about it. 'Guess what I got? Guess what I got?'
You know how I interpreted that? These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have."

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

"Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it."

For One More Day

"I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't."

His books have such simple stories lines and they're easy reads. But what makes them so great, is the whole way through, every single one of his books, you can't stop think about life in a deeper and happier way. After you finish the book you can't help but feel peace with life and an appreciation for every little detail of your life. Past, present and yet to come.

-Sora

It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you've seen, or something you've heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.
I'll rise, but I won't shine.
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.
When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
I wanted so much to step over and pick them up. Several times I tried to move my feet, but they seemed to be nailed to the floor. I knew the pups were mine, all mine, yet I couldn't move. My heart started aching like a drunk grasshopper. I tried to swallow and couldn't. My Adam's apple wouldn't work. One pup started my way. I held my breath. On he came until I felt a scratchy little foot on mine. The other pup followed. A warm puppy tongue caressed my sore foot. I heard the stationmaster say, "They already know you." I knelt down and gathered them in my arms. I buried my face between their wiggling bodies and cried.

One of my absolute favorite book quotes is from 1984:

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four if that is granted all else follows

I absolutely love this quote and all it implies because it is just a great representation of the book as a whole and the main themes of the book.

I also love the quote from Tamora Pierce (it's in a couple of her books so i don't remember which ones exactly)

What's that got to do with the Price of the Peas in persopolis?

I've actually used this quote in real life and gotten some strange looks. b/c of course no one but a tamora pierce fan would know what i'm talking about ;)

I think my absolute all time favorite book quotes though may be from The Things They Carried because it is just soooo true

You can tell a true war story if it embarasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for truth: if you don't care for truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

[book=%2$s]"You're not a hero, and I'm not beautiful. But we're alive, and we're together, and we're gonna be okay."[/book]
The last line from Mortal Engines. It's what really set the book apart for me. I thought I had the whole story figured out, begining to end, until the final chapter. Then that line really drove it home, and blew me away.

Originally Posted by Wings of Writing

I also love the quote from Tamora Pierce (it's in a couple of her books so i don't remember which ones exactly)

I've actually used this quote in real life and gotten some strange looks. b/c of course no one but a tamora pierce fan would know what i'm talking about ;)

SAME!! I used it a few times, and got some really weird looks.

I have a few.

"To the moss we topple backward, falling gently, head over heels. Mayhap to land so safely on such softness, is the way love truly feels..."

"In your heart I shall outlive myself."

"No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns..."

"Falling in love is like falling off a building, it doesn't hurt until the end.

What's that one about kicking kittens from?

It's something Jace says in City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare.

I thought I recognised it. Have you read Clockwork Angel yet? *drools*

No but I have it sitting beside me ready to read just as soon as I've finished 'Circus of Sins'. I really love the Mortal Instrument books so I'm REALLY looking forward to it. And I'm a total Jace fangirl...wish he was in Clockwork Angel.