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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:10 pm
So, I read ShaDragon's thread in the Writer's Corner about Favorite Quotes from your book, and I thought, "Hey, this is a great idea!" And thus, this thread was inspired. I'll go ahead and kick things off with a quote from Barbara Kingsolver's book, High Tide in Tucson: "Where does it go when it leaves us, the memory of beautiful, strange things?"-Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson, pg 202* Love and Vale, -LD *page number is optional, but preferred.
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:42 am
"That is what it is," said Reepicheep, "Drinkable light. We must be very near the end of the world now."
C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, pg. 248
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:37 pm
"That is not dead which can eternal lie; And with strange aeons even death may die."
H.P. Lovecraft... Quoting the Necronomicon, in "The Nameless City"
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:36 am
OK my favorite series is the Pendragon series by DJ Machale and my favorite book in that series is the Lost City of Faar. My favorite quote in that book is deffinately, "I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which was the right one. I had to call upon all my Travler experiance and special powers to figure it out. It's called... 'Eenie, meeny, miney, mo!' I pulled on mo and with a grinding screech the floor began to move. The hatch door was sliding open! Go mo!" rofl
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:33 am
"An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a gallon of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!"
~ Thomas, Dresden Files: Blood Rites, Chapter 1
Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. I ran away.
~ Harry Dresen, Dresden Files
Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.
-- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home.
-- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 1:15 pm
Oh my god, I've got to read Good Omens! (And the Dresden Files)
Thanks a million!
-LD
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:50 pm
All my quotes are long.... but I like them, so here they are, with books.
It may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so then let us set up a last agonizing, blood-curdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! Away with lamentation! Away with elegies and dirges! Away with biographies and histories, and libraries and museums! Let the dead eat the dead. Let us living ones dance about the rim of a crater, a last expiring dance. But a dance! --Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
(This was in the third paragraph of the book, the author just told everything that happened) So we are nearing the end. The right-hand, still untasted part of the novel, which, during our delectable reading, we would lightly feel, mechanically testing whether there were still plenty left (and our fingers were always gladdened by the placid, faithful thickness) has suddenly, for no reason at all, become quite meager: a few minutes of quick reading, all ready downhill, and--O horrible! The heap of cherries, whose mass had seemed to us of such a ruddy and glossy black, had suddenly become discrete drupes: the one over there with the scar is a little rotten, and this one has shriveled and dried up around its stone (and the very last one is inevitably hard and unripe) O horrible! --Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
and a favourite
...all my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples. --Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
Half gods are worshiped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:59 pm
Quote: Half gods are worshiped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood. Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Wow. I really like this quote for some reason. Thanks for sharing!
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:19 pm
I agree, that was chilling. It reminds me of a quote from a certain book...Ah, here it is:
"Men forge swords of steel and fire;
gods forge swords of flesh and blood and tragedy."
-Vincalis the Agitator
from The Last Hero of Maestwauld
(excerpted from Holly Lisle's Diplomacy of Wolves)
-LD
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:45 pm
Leavaros I agree, that was chilling. It reminds me of a quote from a certain book...Ah, here it is: "Men forge swords of steel and fire; gods forge swords of flesh and blood and tragedy." -Vincalis the Agitator from The Last Hero of Maestwauld (excerpted from Holly Lisle's Diplomacy of Wolves) -LD That's pretty awesome too.
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:25 am
"Take a large bowl. Fill it with equal measures of fact, fantasy, history, mythology, science, superstition, logic, and lunacy. Darken the mixture with bitter tears, brighten it with howls of laughter, toss in three thousand years of civilization, bellow kan pei—which means 'dry cup'—and drink to the dregs."
"And I will be wise?"
"Better. You will be Chinese."
—Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds.
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 11:26 am
Haha, that's great! Love the signature, too, Godhi!
Love and Vale,
-LD
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:39 pm
I adore that quote. I need to read that book, to see if there are more like it.
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:19 am
Souls in the winds must learn how to bend
Here's a bunch I found from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series:
The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty into reporting. Thus, if a legend said of a notable here that "all men spoke of his prowess" any bard who valued his life would add hastily "except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a liar, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him."
-Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED 'LIVING'.
-Death, The Last Continent
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
-Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
-Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.
-Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Seek out a star, hold on to the end 
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:11 pm
I've simply got to read that series, I've heard now, two people talking about it, one whom I'm coming to respect more and more.
Love and Vale,
-LD
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