What's your favorite line?

tengraceapples · Jun 11, 2009

Hey!

I was just reading one of my favorite Agatha Christie novels "mystery of the Blue train"
and came across this line-- "Even you in your indestructible innocents, had to know something was wrong..."
I wondered if you guys had a line that you loved from a book? Something that you wish you had written yourself?

Juneluv12 · Jun 11, 2009

Mine is from To Kill a Mockingbird...my all time favorite book. Well, there's a few!!!

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Seriously, there's so many great ones. I can read them or watch the movie, and my chest literally tightens with emotion!!!!

Rebecca_Rogers · Jun 11, 2009

Gone With the Wind is my alltime favorite book and movie, so here goes:

"Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.'"

"I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later."

"Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything."

"My dear, I don't give a damn."

Makes me smile. I think I'll go home and watch the movie today.

Red.Ink.Rain · Jun 11, 2009

Juneluv12 said:
Mine is from To Kill a Mockingbird...my all time favorite book.

Ooh, definitely one of my favorites too.

I'm rereading it for the third time.

Juneluv12 · Jun 11, 2009

Rebecca_Rogers said:
Gone With the Wind is my alltime favorite book and movie, so here goes:

"Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.'"

"I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later."

"Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything."

"My dear, I don't give a damn."

Makes me smile. I think I'll go home and watch the movie today.

I totally have a magnet of Clark Gable on my refrigerator that says, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!" I got it at the Gone with the Wind museum in Marietta, GA. It was awesome!!!

Rebecca_Rogers · Jun 11, 2009

Juneluv12 said:
I totally have a magnet of Clark Gable on my refrigerator that says, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!" I got it at the Gone with the Wind museum in Marietta, GA. It was awesome!!!

I collect all kinds of GWTW stuff! I have Barbie dolls to snow globes to candles to tins to the ORIGINAL 1936 edition of the book.

I'm such a nerd.

I'd LOVE to go to Atlanta sometime and see the museums!!! I'm so happy you have Rhett on your fridge.

Roger J Carlson · Jun 11, 2009

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." -J. R. R. Tolkien

Juneluv12 · Jun 11, 2009

Rebecca_Rogers said:
I collect all kinds of GWTW stuff! I have Barbie dolls to snow globes to candles to tins to the ORIGINAL 1936 edition of the book. I'm such a nerd.

I'd LOVE to go to Atlanta sometime and see the museums!!! I'm so happy you have Rhett on your fridge.

Come on down and we'll do a road trip! See Margaret Mitchell's house, the museum, go down to Clayton County where Tara was!!

Then we can go eat Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe in Juliette, GA, which is just an hour and a half from Atlanta. I've never been, and I'm dying to go this summer.

Rebecca_Rogers · Jun 11, 2009

Juneluv12 said:
Come on down and we'll do a road trip! See Margaret Mitchell's house, the museum, go down to Clayton County where Tara was!!

Then we can go eat Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe in Juliette, GA, which is just an hour and a half from Atlanta. I've never been, and I'm dying to go this summer.

OMG That would be SO much fun!!!

P.S. - I love fried green tomatoes!!

Juneluv12 · Jun 11, 2009

Roger J Carlson said:
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." -J. R. R. Tolkien

I love Lord of the Rings! Here are my quotes from it:

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep that have taken hold.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Love me some Gandalf!!!

Roger J Carlson · Jun 11, 2009

I'm very much on the fence over the death-penalty, but the very best argument I've heard against it came from Gandalf:

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

tengraceapples · Jun 11, 2009

Roger J Carlson said:
I'm very much on the fence over the death-penalty, but the very best argument I've heard against it came from Gandalf:

"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

Thats a good one!

Leah_Michelle · Jun 11, 2009

Juneluv12 said:
I love Lord of the Rings! Here are my quotes from it:

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back? There are some things time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep that have taken hold.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Love me some Gandalf!!!

That's mostly the reason why I love Lord of the Rings. He writes so beautifully.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost

I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

This one ^ is from the movie, but it's based off a speech Sam gives in the book. This brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it.

Ithaka · Jun 12, 2009

I rather like this one:

"HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."
-Death, in Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

(Sorry about the all-caps, but that's how Death talks.)

Zoombie · Jun 12, 2009

"Bring nukes. Lots and lots of nukes." Pham Trillian (aka Pham Neuen) to Sammy in A Deepness In The Sky.

That line always makes me feel fuzzy

Roger J Carlson · Jun 12, 2009

Zoombie said:
"Bring nukes. Lots and lots of nukes." Pham Trillian (aka Pham Neuen) to Sammy in A Deepness In The Sky.

That line always makes me feel fuzzy

This reminds me of a line in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein.

There's a large rally where the lunar residents (most released convicts) talk about the problem of Earth's forced shipping of convict-colonists to the Moon. One old Swede convict pipes up:

"Tell dem to send hoors. Tousands and tousands of hoors. I marry em, I betcha."

tengraceapples · Jun 12, 2009

Ithaka said:
I rather like this one:

"HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."
-Death, in Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

(Sorry about the all-caps, but that's how Death talks.)

That's my fav. So far and any lord of the rings quote too

What's your favorite line?

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