Favourite Book Quotes

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Favourite Book Quotes

Here you can share with us the favourite quotes from your favourite books! 馃檪

"Uh...Fizban, your hat is on fire,"-Tasslehoff Burrfoot
"Just tossing pebbles in a pond and watching the ripples. Shh...look, I will toss another."-Dalamar the Dark
"Some day, fat inn keepers will bow down to me."- Raistlin Majere

I could be here for hours! 馃槃

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One of my favourites is:

"Hope? Hope is the carrot placed before the plowhorse," or something like that. Raistlin said that to Laurana, and later Laurana said that right before Beryl attacked Qualinesti

"A mage's soul is forged in crucible of magic"- that one fat teacher in The Soulforge.
"We are not the stuff of heroes"- Tanis Half-elven

as I said, I could be here for hours if I had my stack of books in front of me!

"of corse I'm going to be difficult!"- Flint Fireforge

The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. - Stephen King, The Gunslinger

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Richard Bach

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

it is not our ablities use make who we it is our chocies harry

albus percivul wilfirc brain dumbledore

it is not our ablities who make who we are it is our choices sorry the first one was wrong

"That is not dead which can eteranl lie,
And with strange aeons, even death may die."
~~H. P. Lovecraft~~

"Hope is the denial of reaity"
~~Raistlin Majere~~

"Nothing says 'Ooops!' like a wall of flame!"
~~I forgot who said it~~

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
~~H. P. Lovecraft~~

"'Well that sucks,' someone said." - Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

pretty much anything you want from either trainspotting or porno by Irvine welsh

RENTAUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!! Genius

"Beep Beep, Richie." - Pennywise: IT

"Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!" - Man in Black: The Gunslinger

"I have a job. I'll walk the rest of my life. I'm a grunt. I'm supposed to walk and love it. I'm twenty years old and I was dumb enough to sign a contract and here I sit, miserable... in the hairy armpit, swinging in the ball sack, slopping through the straddle trench of the world, and I can hear their bombs already, Mr. Times, I can hear their bombs and I am afraid." - Anthony Swofford: Jarhead

"Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasont lying in bed among your family, no one can accompany you into the void..."

This quote is by Glaedr, Oromis's dragon from teh Eldest book.

Anything from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way a gun is power."
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

"Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in crisis and need something."
-Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

hp lovecraft - the call of cthulhu

This exchange from 'Midnight Falcon' by David Gemmell made me laugh:

Bane *looking for a prostitute in a tavern*: 'What about women?'

Innkeeper: 'All taken. You'll have to make do with Dame Wrist and her five little daughters'

War is Peace(1984)
Freedom is Slavely(1984)
If this be sin let sin be served(The Oath)