Favorite book quotes

[BrokenQuill92]

"As it turns out, Lord Tywin Lannister did not shit gold."

A Storm of Swords- Tyrion pov

[TheRealJoeFish]

Oh I have dozens and dozens! I will post them tonight or tomorrow when I'm not at work

[Crossless2.0]

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

― James Joyce, Ulysses

[Clueless Morgan]

Plum Island by Nelson DeMille

“Look… Can I call you Beth?”

“No.

“Look, Detective Penrose, I know you think I’m attracted to you and you probably think I’m coming on to you… and you think this could be awkward…”
She turned her face away and look out at the bay.

I continued, “…this is really hard to say, but… well… you don’t have to worry about that… about me…”

She turned back and looked at me.

I sort of covered my face with my right hand and rubbed my forehead.  I continued as best I could.  “You see… one of those bullets that hit me… God, how do I say this…? Well, it hit me in a funny place, okay?  Now you know.  So we can be sort of like… friends, partners… brother and sister… I guess I mean sister and sister…” I glanced at her and saw she was staring out to sea again.

Finally she spoke.  “I thought you said you were hit in the stomach.”

“There, too.”

“Max said you had a serious lung wound.”

“That, too.”

“Any brain damage?”

“Maybe.”

“And now you want me to believe you’ve been neutered by yet another bullet.”

“It’s nothing a guy would lie about.”

“If the furnace is out, why is there still fire in your eyes?”

“Just a memory, Beth—Can I call you Beth?  A good memory of a time when I could pole-vault over my car.”

She put her hand up to her face, and I couldn’t tell if she was crying or laughing.

[BrokenQuill92]

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.


Cattery Sponge/Nanny Wicked by Gregory Maguire

[LadyForCamus]

I have always loved ghost stories since I was a little girl. This particular quote has stuck with me since I read the book in 9th grade. I can't really explain why.

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

-Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Madame, why don't you take your fat-ass husband, your ghastly hairdo, your conspicuous consumption of the Gross National Product, not to mention the certainly ill-gotten dollar he's trying to pry out around his obesity, and insert them vertically where they'll do you simply a world of good. And then, if you carefully light them, you can provide yourselves with instant, jet-assisted takeoff back to New Rochelle. In short, get the hell away from me before I dropkick you through the window of that bookstore.' - Harlan Ellison, 'The New York Review Of Bird'.

Boru

[pocaracas]

Necropost?... what necropost?! pffft!

I was reading this book, this morning, when I came across this awesome passage.
From Issac Asimov's Foundation and Earth:
"
"Do you think it so easy to destroy an intelligent being?"

Trevize's lips twisted into an expression of distaste. "Come, Bliss. An intelligent being? It was just a robot."

"Just a robot?" A little passion entered her voice. "That's the argument always. Just. Just! Why should the Solarian, Bander, have hesitated to kill us? We were just human beings without transducers. Why should there be any hesitation about leaving Fallom to its fate? It was just a Solarian, and an immature specimen at that. If you start dismissing anyone or anything you want to do away with as just a this or just a that, you can destroy anything you wish. There are always categories you can find for them."
"

[Ravenshire]

Here are a couple that graced my sig at one point or another.

"I thought that was what religion was. Simplification for the hard-of-thinking." ~Takeshi Kovacs
From the book "Broken Angels" by Richard K. Morgan

"We should admire Prometheus, not Zues...Job, not Jehovah. Becoming a god, or godlike being, is selling out to the enemy. From the Greeks to the Norse to the Garden of Eden, gods are capricious assholes with impulse control problems. Joining their ranks would be a step down."
From "Radiant" by James Alan Gardner

[Neo-Scholastic]

"You'll stop worrying about what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do." David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest