Favorite line you've written

Charlie Horse · Feb 25, 2008

Current or in the past, what ~~are~~ is your best lines? This is a little less restrictive than "your first 3 lines" or "last line you wrote today." Choose something from anywhere in anything you've ever written and take your best shot.

Here's one I'm rather fond of to get this started.

"With all due respect, sir, I don’t have the capacity for curiosity. If you wanted a curious robot you should have ponied up the extra credits and gotten the deluxe model.”

Update from the current moderator: As per this sticky,

Note that regardless of what the thread's originator suggested or what other people have posted in the past, your whatever line, singular, is acceptable. Longer excerpts will be deleted. There are plenty of display sites else-web if you're looking to show off your work.

Horsetales · Feb 25, 2008

Here's one from my WIP:

‘Ah, someone who is not quite arrogant enough to think he has all the answers, but just pig headed enough to think he has all the right questions!’

juneafternoon · Feb 25, 2008

How could the Elites not see that their arrogance wasn’t laying down any brickwork for an imminent canonization?

I'll use that at some point

Or a variant thereof.

Charlie Horse · Feb 25, 2008

Ran across another one.

Ben was having second thoughts again. The idea of piloting any kind of vehicle that needed an eject button somehow didn’t seem right.

Horsetales · Feb 25, 2008

Another one from my WIP:

‘Typical of my luck,’ he thought. ‘Just when it looks like I might be getting a girlfriend, I find out that I’m part human, part mythical horse. Fabulous! Not exactly something to mention if I get to meet her mother and father.’

sheadakota · Feb 25, 2008

"That was the beauty of familys, Dakota decided. You knew what it took to make them bleed, the magic was in choosing not too."

citymouse · Feb 25, 2008

A thin line of sunlight knifed across the plush carpet then zigzagged up the face of the red mahogany armoire before fading into a poof of stray beams and floating dust.

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Moon Wolf · Feb 25, 2008

lol, this is actually a pretty weird one, but amoung my friends it's the first thing we say when we think of the character:

The three girls were cross-legged on the floor, a deck of cards and some chips laid out on the floor. Maufuki looked furtively over her cards at Lara. "You got any three's?"

"Maufuki!!!" Both girls cried out; Aklana grabbed the "T-Virus" Manual and smacked her over the head with it. (Maufuki cried out 'ow' again, and said "That hurt worse than the 'Time Machine!!' ") "That is NOT how you play poker!!!"

WildScribe · Feb 25, 2008

sheadakota said:
"That was the beauty of familys, Dakota decided. You knew what it took to make them bleed, the magic was in choosing not too."

I like this.

Dan Razor · Feb 25, 2008

Well it might not bea line, but it is the funniest phrase I had made so far. It was on a patch "I 69 NY"

[FONT=&quot]“Leave it to an omni powerful…thing, to tell you all you need to know.”[/FONT]

HeronW · Feb 25, 2008

Ikarias 1--from an evil sorceress to an assassin named Aria whom she doesn't like much:

"Feeling a little warm, assassin? Balefire does that, bastes you from the inside out. You have a few minutes left to enjoy your peaches and cream complexion. I'd tell you more but it would ruin the surprise. Let's just say you'll provide a good reading light for centuries."

Devil Ledbetter · Feb 25, 2008

One of mine:

“You’ve got to understand this stuff or you’ll be following your dick through life. Now, me and my dick, we’re walking side by side, seeing the sights, making decisions. He has a say, but he doesn’t get to lead.”

DWSTXS · Feb 25, 2008

KTC said:
“You f**king liar,” said Trig. “You don’t want to do anything. You run away from every Goddamned thing in your life but mediocrity, Billy."

That's great.

Death Wizard · Feb 25, 2008

Only a Death-Knower can die.
And live again.
Only a Death-Knower can return from death.
And remember.
Only a Death-Knower can tell us what he has seen.
Not all care to listen.

Stormhawk · Feb 25, 2008

Edit:

Going to find a better one later.

angeliz2k · Feb 25, 2008

I was slightly bored so I came up with a few. I highlighted my favorite line; it sticks out in my mind for reasons beyond it's own meaning, though.

“You needn’t be the hero,” she said. “It isn’t your responsibility to save us all.”

“What does it say?” he asked. “I can’t read.”
“It says you are an ass reincarnated as a human being as a joke of the goddess,” Monat said smartly, wrenching her plaque from his hands.

“That tunic makes your blue eyes look beautiful,” Claudia said meekly.
“My eyes are gray,” Ceridwen said vaguely.

“Every man has his beliefs,” answered Cobbler with a smile. “I can only believe one thing at a time.”

“What if he wins?” she asked.
“I will set you free,” Benitus said. He was on his feet, too, hollering too loudly.
“And then what?”
He stopped yelling for long enough to shrug. “I had not thought that far.”

“That will be your epitaph, then? I’ll make sure it’s on your tombstone. ‘Buckets and buckets and buckets.’ ‘This is the final resting place of Calvinus, dead in the Great Fire of Rome, aged twenty-two years and still a virgin . . . ‘”

She turned, leaned against the railing, her eyes half-lidded. “Why are you so bitter?”

Pike · Feb 25, 2008

These are fun!

Here's one I enjoyed. Set up: Reply comes from a werewolf giving a cop crap for trying to protect his wife:

“You keep your god damned hands off of my wife or so help me…”

“What? There isn’t anything you can do. You’re nothing to me, not even a distraction. I could peel her like an orange while she screamed her lungs out and hold you under my boot the entire time.”

Pike

Stew21 · Feb 25, 2008

Mediocre becomes a mantra when you live it long enough, and every pure passion leaks away; it seeks a light you no longer have.

Shady Lane · Feb 25, 2008

From Invincible Pig.

My HIV-positive MC listens to his pastor father's sermon:

My father says, “In every man’s life, once or twice at the very least, I firmly believe he needs to find things to bless. Bless with his own, God-powered presence.”

I am my father’s son, so why is my blessing no more than a nicety after I sneeze?

TrishD · Feb 25, 2008

Nick was indestructible. I was pretty sure if the Earth was decimated by a nuclear holocaust, the only things that would survive would be cockroaches, Twinkies and Nick Murphy.

CutteRug · Feb 25, 2008

TrishD said:
Nick was indestructible. I was pretty sure if the Earth was decimated by a nuclear holocaust, the only things that would survive would be cockroaches, Twinkies and Nick Murphy.

Trish, that's awesome.

Dan Razor · Feb 25, 2008

[FONT=&quot]Here is another funny one. I haven't put in my bad ass lines yet.

“Well…f*ck. That is a lot to think about. One day, I am at a concert, the next I am in a world that has a dragon roaming around with a giant plan to reset a civilization’s ideology.”[/FONT]

Mungaiyin · Feb 25, 2008

Days passed, each one a replica if the one before it. The only variation was in the new girls admitted and others transferred to open sections. Faceless girls. Green and white checked shirts. Ticking skirts. Folded down socks lined up along the passage an arms length apart, disinguishable from each other only by size and strength and colour of language, which eventually painted us all in the same shade of muck.

Matera the Mad · Feb 25, 2008

Raven was said to have assisted in the creation of the world. That could explain a lot of things.

TrishD · Feb 25, 2008

CutteRug said:
Trish, that's awesome.

Thank you!

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