favorite book quote?

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WIS · #16 Post by **WIS** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 6:41 am

I cant remember the full quote, but it goes something like this:

If you are a dreamer come in,
If you are a dreamer,
A wisher a lier,
A (forgot), a magic bean buyer,
If you have a tale come site by our fire,
We have some flax golden tales to spin.
Come in, come in.

Quote from Inkheart who quoted from Where The Sidewalk Ends I belive...

Atamand · #17 Post by **Atamand** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 4:17 am

Marshmallow Sky wrote:"Alright," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question..."

"Yes ...!"

"Of Life, the Universe, and Everything ..." said Deep Thought.

"Yes ...!"

"Is ..." said Deep Thought, and paused.

"Yes ...!"

"Is ..."

"Yes ...!!!...?"

"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

You'd be surprised how many times the number 42 comes up in conversations with my friends, quite innocently. Then, we all manage to quote a piece of this at the same time.

Hyperion · #18 Post by **Hyperion** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 5:14 am

"Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows."
---George Orwell, 1984

sweet_as_honey13 · Sun Nov 28, 2004 10:52 pm

Mine is a humorous one- and also the only one I can think of at the moment.

"Look! I can make that old man pick for boogeys again.... and again.... and again! Wicked!" ~Ron Weasly, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

shortin · #20 Post by **shortin** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:08 pm

"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the movie house, I only had two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."~The Outsiders

I like that part so much because its started in the beginning of the book and quoted again at the end.

Urthdigger · #21 Post by **Urthdigger** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:15 pm

Hmm, my favorite quote is usually from the most recent book I've read, they all have good quotes. At the moment, it's from Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchet.

"Ok, I have a vanishing trick but first the guards have to open all the doors, and everyone has to turn around." -Rincewind

CrewWolf · #22 Post by **CrewWolf** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:54 pm

This is my favorite quote currently from Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett:

"Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror."

Jim · #23 Post by **Jim** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 12:16 am

CrewWolf wrote:This is my favorite quote currently from Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett:

"Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvelous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror."

I love that passage. Too often people use words without really appreciating their meanings.

Continuing the Pratchett theme, and cheating by using my sig from another forum :

"Life in this world is, as it were, a sojourn in the cave. What can we know of reality? For all we see of the true nature of existence is, shall we say, no more than bewildering and amusing shadows cast upon the inner wall of the cave by the unseen blinding light of absolute truth, from which we may or may not deduce some glimmer of veracity, and we troglodyte seekers of wisdom can only lift our voices to the unseen and say, humbly, "Go on, do Deformed Rabbit...its my favourite." " - Narrative from Small Gods ( I think )

Also, very nearly anything Bursar ever says is quotable.

Monique · #24 Post by **Monique** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:00 am

"There are just some kind of men who - who're jsut so busy worrying about the next world they've never really learned how to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
-- To Kill a Mockingbird
--By Harper Lee

Syrill · #25 Post by **Syrill** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:37 am

"If I understand their transcript system, the courses she'd passed might qualify her for assistant gerbil trainer in a zoo..."

(Wow...you can major for that in college

)

"Fruitcakes. Aunt Gracie Lane must be the most single-minded person in the entire universe if she knew anything about what had happened and was worrying about those hideous fruitcakes."

(Haha...after a near death experience, the main character is told by her aunt to remember to eat all the fruitcakes (there were 3...to the main character's horror), and slice them in thin ladylike slices.)

"I'm probably not being fair--" "To think she's a fluttery featherhead? Possibly not, but she's a good imitation."

From Trading in Danger By Elizabeth Moon

Smart Duck · #26 Post by **Smart Duck** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:27 pm

"A dignified lizard looks even odder than an offended lizard."

- Talking to Dragons, by Patricia Wrede

VeraX · #27 Post by **VeraX** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:15 pm

shortin wrote:"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the movie house, I only had two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."~The Outsiders

I like that part so much because its started in the beginning of the book and quoted again at the end.

I love that book, and I love that quote.

shortin · #28 Post by **shortin** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:59 am

VeraX wrote:
shortin wrote:"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the movie house, I only had two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."~The Outsiders

I like that part so much because its started in the beginning of the book and quoted again at the end.

I love that book, and I love that quote.

Ain't it great! Have you ever seen the movie?

Smart Duck · #29 Post by **Smart Duck** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:33 pm

"Ideas or lack of them can cause disease."

From Breakfast of Champions or Good-bye Blue Monday, by Kurt Vonnegut. There's also a good quote about insanity but I don't remember it.

Medusa · #30 Post by **Medusa** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 4:03 am

I have a few and they're all probably more like paragraphs than single quotes:

Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda wrote:Seven hearts the journey makes,
Seven ways the heart will break,
Bravest heart will carry on,
Whan sleep is death and hope is gone
Look into the fiery jaws of fear,
And see the answer white and clear
Then throw away the thought of home,
For only then your quest is done.

Rowan and the Travellers by Emily Rodda wrote:Beneath soft looks the evil burns
and slowly round the old wheel turns
The same mistakes, the same old pride
The priceless armor, cast aside
the secret enemy is here
it hides in darkness, fools beware
for day by day its power grows
And when at last its face it shows
the past and present tales will meet
the evil circle is complete.

Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal by Emily Rodda wrote:To mix the brew that wakes Death Sleep
Fill one spread hand with silver deep.
In hungry pool moons raise their heads:
Pluck one and add the tears it sheds.
Stir slowly with new fighter's quill.
Three times, no more, and let it still.
Add venom from your greatest fear-
One drop-and then the truth is clear.

Yes, I'm an Emily Rodda fan