OT: Best Quotes From Your Favorite Books

[Cricket]

OK so I couldn't pick just one quote.

"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."

"A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oild and the ladys favors, they're silk ribbons tied round the sword. Maybe the sword's prettier with the ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead. Well, bugger your ribbons, and shove your swords up your arses. I'm the same as you . The only difference is, I don't lie about what I am. So kill me, but don't call me a murderer while you stand there telling each other that your **** don't stink. You hear me!"

"My queen, all you say is true. But Rhaegar lost on the trident. He lost the battle, he lost the war, he lost the kingdom, and he lost his life. His blood swirled downriver with the rubies from his breastplate, and Robert the Usurper rode over his corpse to steal the Iron Throne. Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died."

George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones.

 

[GagneFire12]

OK so I couldn't pick just one quote.

"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground."

"A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oild and the ladys favors, they're silk ribbons tied round the sword. Maybe the sword's prettier with the ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead. Well, bugger your ribbons, and shove your swords up your arses. I'm the same as you . The only difference is, I don't lie about what I am. So kill me, but don't call me a murderer while you stand there telling each other that your **** don't stink. You hear me!"

"My queen, all you say is true. But Rhaegar lost on the trident. He lost the battle, he lost the war, he lost the kingdom, and he lost his life. His blood swirled downriver with the rubies from his breastplate, and Robert the Usurper rode over his corpse to steal the Iron Throne. Rhaegar fought valiantly, Rhaegar fought nobly, Rhaegar fought honorably. And Rhaegar died."

George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones.

Favorite series of books. Just incredible. Are you excited for Dance?

 

[Cricket]

Favorite series of books. Just incredible. Are you excited for Dance?

Yes! I just hope he manages to finish the series before he dies.

 

[GagneFire12]

Yes! I just hope he manages to finish the series before he dies.

I think he will. Breaking up Feast and Dance, and keeping simultaneous timelines, seemed to give George a lot of trouble. But now that he can move forward, I think he'll finish it up with relative ease. Are you watching the show?

 

[Cricket]

I think he will. Breaking up Feast and Dance, and keeping simultaneous timelines, seemed to give George a lot of trouble. But now that he can move forward, I think he'll finish it up with relative ease. Are you watching the show?

I am. I think it's pretty good so far. It's kinda funny, even though I know whats going to happen, I find myself on the edge of my seat.

 

[makeshiftb0y]

There's a bunch from Ishmael by Daniel Quinn and Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, but I'm too lazy and tired to look up the exact quotes in Ishmael and a friend has my copy of Infinite Jest at the moment.

Edit:

Here's one from Infinite Jest--perhaps not the best quote, but I like it:
"It now lately sometimes seemed like a kind of black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately--the object seemed incidental to this will to give oneself away, utterly.to games or needles, to some other person. Something pathetic about it. A flight-from in the form of a plunging-into."

 

[TOX1]

I find I am excited, so excited I can hardly hold the pencil in my trembling hand. I think it is the excitement that only a free man can feel, a free man starting a long journey whose conclusion in uncertain.

I hope Andy is down there.

I hope I can make it across the border.

I hope to see my friend and shake his hand.

I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.

I hope.

Very cool movie.

 

[Vadered]

Yes! I just hope he manages to finish the series before he dies.

*COUGH*RobertJordan*COUGH*

My problem is that I love long fantasy series. It sucks when you are 12 books in and the 13th comes out and you have to reread 5000-10000 pages to remember what the hell was going on. Honor Harrington and Wheel of Time, I'm looking at you.

And also, my favorite quote is "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." Tale of Two Cities. I'm not usually one for thought-provoking literature as opposed to stories, but that was a good book.

 

[forty_three]

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was "Oh no, not again."

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

 

[detroit_schlegs]

"Book 'em Danno!"
"No, you book 'em yourself!"

 

[mattola]

"I couldn't believe it could happen to me, my car ran out of gas and the farmers daughter was smoking hot.........."

 

[RangersReds03]

I am. I think it's pretty good so far. It's kinda funny, even though I know whats going to happen, I find myself on the edge of my seat.

I liked the show so much I started reading the books.

 

[mattola]

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

 

[Vadered]

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was "Oh no, not again."

Figures that a Columbus fan would love a book where the words "DON'T PANIC" are written in large, friendly letters.

 

[forty_three]

Figures that a Columbus fan would love a book where the words "DON'T PANIC" are written in large, friendly letters.

*Mostly* Harmless

 

[KillerVee]

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

I just finished my midterm on 1984 an hour ago.... Fucking over it. Reading "Darkness at Noon" now which is remarkably better so far.

 

[KillerVee]

That's another way things changed. Before, we used to just talk like normal people do. I'd say something, then she'd say something connected to that, then I'd say something connected to that, and it'd go on and on and, before you knew it, we'd be in bed and naked. But now we don't even have what you would call a normal conversation. Every time we talk about something, it's like she's a scientist trying to prove some theory. And she's always using A's and B's to do it. Or 1's and 2's and 3's.

For instance, I'll get dressed in the morning and she'll say "Go get changed. I don't like 1) your shirt, 2) your pants, and 3) your socks."

Or I'll ask what she's cooking for dinner and she'll say, "We're having A) hot dogs, B) cole slaw, C) potatoes, and D) lemonade."

I'd never heard something so funny as someone trying to sound intelligent because they say "D) lemonade." As if the king or queen of some country runs around saying "D) lemonade!" As if some professor at Harvard University comes home from work at the end of a busy and frustrating day and his wife will say "We're having D) lemonade." As if anyone's wife talks that way.

That's a bad example, of course, because Renee is NOT my wife. She's not my wife because A) I never asked her to be my wife, B) we never got a marriage license, C) we never had a wedding ceremony, and D) lemonade.


- My Wife and My Dead Wife by Michael Kun

 

[Eddie_Shack]

"Why don't you go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut?"