Books - You favorite book quotes

Crossbow · 08-30-2004, 05:30 PM

I think we had a thread on this before, but I can't find it. Anyway...

"He said nothing. Very sarcastically."

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King

09-03-2004, 07:47 PM

There's a whole bunch of great quotes in Charmian Carr's "Liesl" books, but I don't know them offhand.

Fairy_Angel · 09-04-2004, 02:22 AM

"I walked back past the coffin and hesitated. I had an urge to knock on the smooth wood. Anybody home? I didn't do it. For all I knew someone might have knocked back."

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton

"Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one who's human."

Circus of the Damned by Laurell K Hamilton

(( I love these books. I've got the whole Anita Blake set and Merry Gentry set except for the new ones that are coming out this year))

leytonforever8 · 09-04-2004, 03:48 AM

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Originally posted by Fairy_Angel
"I walked back past the coffin and hesitated. I had an urge to knock on the smooth wood. Anybody home? I didn't do it. For all I knew someone might have knocked back."

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton

"Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one who's human."

Circus of the Damned by Laurell K Hamilton

(( I love these books. I've got the whole Anita Blake set and Merry Gentry set except for the new ones that are coming out this year))

those r really good books!!!!

Fairy_Angel · 09-05-2004, 12:23 AM

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Originally posted by leytonforever8
those r really good books!!!!

Yes, they are totally good books. I think I've read them way too many times.

Seeing as I've read every book I got I usually turn to them or my Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith.

Catalinay · 09-05-2004, 05:52 AM

Some of my favorite quotes from Engines of the Gods by Jack McDevitt:

The universe is a drafty, precarious haven for anything that thinks. There are damned few of us, and it is a wide world, and long. Hutch wondered about her. What had brought her so far from home? Why had she traveled alone? Long since gone to dust, no doubt. Nevertheless, I wish you well.

**

Carson watched recordings of its image on the screens. Prominences did not erupt from its interior, nor did sunspots mar its placid surface. It had entered the final stage of its existence, and death would come quickly now. By cosmic standards.
For all that, it would still be here, and still look much the same, when the human race had long since met whatever fate awaited it. Or had evolved into something else.

**

If they ask for me,
Say, she rides where comets go,
And outpaces light.

I have walked on stars,
And sailed the channels of night,
To sip tea with you.

Dragon in the dark,
Your eyes move across the stars,
Your breath warms the moon.

My spirit glides above the waters of the world,
Because you are with me.

- Alex - · 09-05-2004, 01:23 PM

fairy angel I love those quotes!

there are too many quotes that I love in all the books I've read. But right now there's one stuck in my head, it's very simple but it's stuck inside me:

"On top of which he had developed an almost irresistible urge to kiss her when she was saying something interesting, which he regarded as a healthy sign [...] What happened was, she would be talking with humour and passion and quirky, animated intelligence about Ali, or music, or her painting, and he would drift off into some kind of possibly sexual but certainly romantic reverie, and she would ask him wheter he was listening [...] It was something of a double paradox, really a) you appeared to glaze over, and b) you wanted to stop her talking by covering her mouth with yours."

~About a boy~

Alexis_Milo_04 · 09-05-2004, 11:25 PM

From The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks....

"The first time you fall in love,it changes your life forever,and no matter how hard you try,the feeling never goes away.And no matter what you do,they'll stay with you forever."

I remember after I read that book,that this quote is what stuck out above anything else because it's so true.....

22 Umbrellas · 09-06-2004, 02:28 AM

I quote a lot from Dancing on the Edge by Han Nolan, Dreamland by Sarah Dessen, White Oleander by Janet Fitch, and Broken Chords by Barbara Snow Gilbert, simply because they have a lot of thought-provoking comments in them. Oh, and anything by Kevin Brooks because he writes beautifully. I always bookmark the quotes I like with sticky notes so I can find them again as quickly as possible.

Unfortunately, I have a terrible memory and can't remember anything verbatim. So I can't share any of the quotes at the moment, but I'll try to do that soon.

Soz · 09-06-2004, 04:43 AM

"'Is death what you most fear?'" she asked curiously.

'No. Not death.' He rubbed his forehead, hesitated. 'Loss of mind. My game plan all my life has been to demand acceptance of this,' a vague wave down the length, or the shortness, of his body, 'because I was a smart-*ss little b*st*rd who could think rings around the opposition, and prove it time after time. Without the brains...' Without the brains I'm nothing." This is from Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold and it sums up perfectly how I've felt about my short, sick body for most of my life. Miles Vorkosigan is a kindred spirit and I feel like he's a real person, not just a character in a book.

- Alex - · 09-06-2004, 04:38 PM

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"'Is death what you most fear?'" she asked curiously.

'No. Not death.' He rubbed his forehead, hesitated. 'Loss of mind. [...] Without the brains...' Without the brains I'm nothing."

Carrie99 · 09-06-2004, 06:48 PM

From Gone With the Wind (though semi-cliched):

"I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."

There's some more I like from GWTW, but I don't have the book with me to get the exact quotes.

StellaSlight · 09-07-2004, 07:59 AM

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on
And our little life is rounded with a sleep"

-Willilam Shakespeare, The Tempest

I'm such a Shakespeare afficionado! I used to quote him all the time in my English essay (which was always a good thing if one wanted a good grade

). There are dozen of other quotes by him that I'd love to put here, but I need my books.

**TheAngel** · 09-07-2004, 06:19 PM

Oh, Shakespeare quotes. Alright, well I'm reading Hamlet for my english class. These are some of my favorite quotes from it, mainly because I've got the book with me. I'll look for more later.

"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah, fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature possess it merely. That it should come to this!"

And

"To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them. To die-to sleep- no more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To die-to sleep. To sleep-perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shyffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause."

Crossbow · 09-07-2004, 06:45 PM

Arrgh! Don't get me started on Hamlet or I'll quote it all day. My friends actually make fun of me for how mych I quote Shakespeare. Let me see if I can restrict myself to a few of my favorites...

"For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion."
- Benedict, "Much Ado"

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
- Hamlet, "Hamlet

"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
- Macbeth, "Macbeth"