Quotes discussion

Comment on your favourite books. Please try to keep it as accurately worded as possible, however I understand that if you don't have the book with you, it's hard, so that's alright. Write the quote, who says it, which book it's from and the author.
In the future, if this explodes, as it hopefully will, I might create a topic for individual books.
Happy quoting.

Let us see.....

It does not do to dwell on dreams, and forget to live.
- Albus Dumbledore

Please remember to add the book + author, even if it's bloody obvious. =] Thanks.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- J.K Rowling

XD

XD Thanks Miss.

"It's the Mortal Cup, Jace, not the Mortal Toiletbowl." Isabelle, City of Bones, Cassandra Clare. =]

hmm does anyone care if I make one big long list of quotes

Nope, go ahead. :)

a few japanese quotes that I read in the otori series by lian hearn

"Heavens net is wide but it's mesh is fine"

"The deer that weds the autumn bush clover they say sires a single fawn and this fawn of mine this lone boy sets off on a journey grass for his pillow."

"Others too, in far-flung villages, will no doubt be gazing on this moon that never asks which watcher claims the night... Loud on the unseen mountain wind, a stag's cry quivers in the heart, and somewhere a twig lets one leaf fall"

"The sound of the Gion Shoja bells echoes the impermanence of all things. the color of the sala flowers reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline. The proud do not endure, they are like a dream on a spring night; the mighty fall at last, they are as dust before the wind."

"On nights when, wind mixing in, the rain falls, on nights when, rain mixing in, the snow falls."

'You're not the same as you were before. You were much more..."muchier" You've lost your "muchness"'
- The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland

Is that from the movie (directed by TIM BURTON!? I saw the Tim Burton exhibition yesterday! It had the Mad Hatter (yes, the hat too) and two Alice costumes!)??

The Bird of Hermes is my name, Eating my Wings to make me tame. - Alucard, Hellsing manga

"I say, Mr. Heathcliff," I replied, "you must not-you never shall through my means. Another encounter between you and the master would kill her altogether!"

"With your aid that may be avoided," he continued; "and should there be danger of such and event-should he be the cause of adding a single trouble more to her existence-Why, I think, I shall be justified in going to extremes! I wish you had sincerity enough to tell me whether Catherine would suffer greatly from his loss. The fear that she would restrains me: and there you see the distinction between our feelings-Had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society, as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out, and drank his blood! But, till then-if you don't believe me, you don't know me-till then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair of his head!"

Ellen (Nelly) Dean and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights

here comes a very long list

"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 the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)


"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)




"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."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)



"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)



"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)



"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
— J.R.R. Tolkien


"A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Children of Húrin)



"Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)


"Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.
"What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"
"All of them at once," said Bilbo. "And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain. ...
"Good morning!" he said at last. "We don't want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The Water." By this he meant that the conversation was at an end.
"What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off."
— J.R.R. Tolkien


"Speak politely to an enraged dragon."
— J.R.R. Tolkien


"Not even the very wise can see all ends."
— J.R.R. Tolkien



"Short cuts make for long delays."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again)

"Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again)


"Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again)



"towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight"
— J.R.R. Tolkien




"You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)



"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Two Towers)


"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and 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 us."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)



"The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.
But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now
mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)



"If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world."
— J.R.R. Tolkien



"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)


"For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)



"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
— J.R.R. Tolkien



"Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim.
(I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.)
(Gilraen's linnod)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."

First sentence of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.

(I read this book. And didn't enjoy it much. But that sentence has always amused me...)

Hah... Everyone has a really long list... And yes it is from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

I memorized "The Hanging Tree" from Mockingjay. Does that count? :3

well that is a quote so yes

"Then you remember the dream," Mencheres stated. "That bodes ill."

The fear of that made my reply snappy. "Hey, Walks Like An Egyptian, how about for once you drop the formal stuff and talk like you live in the twenty-first century?"

"The shit's gonna splatter, start buggin', yo," Mencheres responded instantly.

I stared at him, then burst out laughing, which was highly inappropriate considering the very grave warning he’d just conveyed."


Cat and Mencheres, Destined for an Early Grave by Jeaniene Frost

"What would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter?" said Snape softly. "Your head is not allowed in Hogsmeade. No part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade."

- Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

XD

"Does the walker choose the path or does the path choose the walker" The Abhorsen trilogy by Garth Nix

I copied this so sue me (on second thought, don't).

“But Potter seems to have a lot to say on the subject,” said Snape, pointing suddenly at the back of the room, his black eyes fixed on Harry. “Let us ask Potter how we would tell the difference between an Inferius and a ghost.”
The whole class looked around at Harry, who hastily tried to recall what Dumbledore had told him the night that they had gone to visit Slughorn. “Er — well — ghosts are transparent —” he said.
“Oh, very good,” interrupted Snape, his lip curling. “Yes, it in easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. ‘Ghosts are transparent.’”
Pansy Parkinson let out a high-pitched giggle. Several other people were smirking. Harry took a deep breath and continued calmly, though his insides were boiling, “Yeah, ghosts are transparent, but Inferi are dead bodies, aren’t they? So they’d be solid —”
“A five-year-old could have told us as much,” sneered Snape. “The Inferius is a corpse that has been reanimated by a Dark wizard’s spells. It is not alive, it is merely used like a puppet to do the
wizard’s bidding. A ghost, as I trust that you are all aware by now, is the imprint of a departed soul left upon the earth, and of course, as Potter so wisely tells us, transparent.”
“Well, what Harry said is the most useful if we’re trying to tell them apart!” said Ron. “Well, what Harry said is the most useful if we're trying to tell them apart! When we come face to face with one down a dark alley we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, "Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?”
There was a ripple of laughter, instantly quelled by the look Snape gave the class.
“Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.”

J.K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

(( Wow. You have a lot of time on your hands MST! O.O))

Yes, ctrl C and ctrl V.

I love those functions. The most helpfulness functions on earth...

Hahahaha I'm spam!!

Oh RCRC, helpfulness?

!!!!

Yes helpfulness...
>:D> <-- my icon has a beard! Yay!

Yayayayayay for beards!!
OK, I'd better actually quote.
"Holy [insert a swear word of your choice]" Fang
The Angel Experiment, James Patterson.

That's a good one! I'm gunna use it!

You should read it, is good!

" Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about anyone else." Damon said charmingly, then he gave one of his ice-cold lighting smiles.

Damon Salvatore, The Fury, L.J Smith.

Also, Gone with the Wind

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid..."
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

"Some would say it is madness to want a woman this way,
but I think it must be love. Not the tepid, fickle love of which the
poets sing—the love that forms or fades with kindness or cruelty.
No, this love is something more divine—like the love of a god, both
vengeful and benign. It is as constant as the sea. And as beautiful.

As dangerous. As mysterious.

She is the only woman to ever refuse me. And yet, I want…"

The Prince, Ember by Bettie Sharpe

I have no idea where to post this but um... my friend (Claudia) found a website with some ...rude... Harry potter pickup lines. XD

http://www.pickuplinesgalore.com/harr...

"Man, You weigh a freaking ton! What have you been eating, rocks?"

-Fang

"Why, is your head missing some?"

-Max"
— James Patterson (The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1))

GSGS wrote: "Yayayayayay for beards!!
OK, I'd better actually quote.
"Holy [insert a swear word of your choice]" Fang
The Angel Experiment, James Patterson."

The swear word of my choice was fish XD

GASP I'M FLAGGING THAT!

Muhahaha...

Miss Silvertongue wrote: "I have no idea where to post this but um... my friend (Claudia) found a website with some ...rude... Harry potter pickup lines. XD

http://www.pickuplinesgalore.com/harr..."

OMG ROFLMAO! That is hilarious!

"Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.

She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she thought.

On impulse, she brought up her hands, turned her fingers into claws. Hissed.

Cool"


Beth Randall, Dark Lover by J.R. Ward

And now, a exept from grey's Fanfic.
"Sage looked around the classroom.A boy with black hair was bothering a ligh brown haired girl with her hair in black ribbons. Two other boys, one with white hair and the other with blue were messing with a black haired boy with 3 stanza lines. A blonde haired girl was reading a book and a tall black hair girl was reading over her shoulder. A girl with light blue hair was messing with a boy covered in stitches.
Well, this is my new class, I guess. She thought.
A few seconds later, the blue haired boy and his white haired friend marched over to Sage.
“BAHAHAHAH! I, THE GREAT BLACK*STAR, CHALLENGE YOU TO A BATTLE!~YAHHOO!”
Sage looked confused.”Who?”
Black*Star looked offended.”GAH! HOW HAVE YOU NOT HEARD OF THE GREAT BLACK*STAR!I AM THE ONE WHO WILL SURPASS GOD!”
Sage shook her head.”Sorry. I haven’t heard of you. I’m Sage Citron. And sure, I’ll fight you.
The hyperactive boy smiled.
“Tsubaki!”He called to the black haired girl.”We gotta fight!”
Sage let out a fanged smile, turning her arm into a long obsidian, jade and diamond blade. The blade glinted a poisonous purple, as being covered with a film of toxin.
“Bring it on, pretty boy.”
The dark haired girl scurried over and turned into twin knives connected by a chain.
“BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YOU ARE GOING DOWN!”
Sage leaped forward,pale blue/green eyes glinting."

-The Other Kids, By Grey-Chan

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"If you take a book with you on a journey,...an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it...yes, books are like flypaper--memories cling to the printed page better than anything else."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

"This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

"Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. "
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

"there was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. they were her home when she was somewhere strange. they were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored"
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

Cody wrote: "a few japanese quotes that I read in the otori series by lian hearn

"Heavens net is wide but it's mesh is fine"

"The deer that weds the autumn bush clover they say sires a single fawn and this f..."

Those are really beautiful Cody.

I love Japanese quotes for some reason they always have a really deep reason.

Yeah, Japanese and Indian proverbs, both.

I take it you're a big fan of Inkheart Elizabeth? :)

Lol, I'm a fan of a lot of books. But yeah, I really like Inkheart. I was just posting my favorite quotes from "one" of my favorite authors. Lol! I got like twenty of them.

"You wouldn't know a clue if it danced in front of you with a T-Shirt that read 'I'm a clue"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl 1-3)

"Foaly: Anyone see you come in here?
Holly: The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB.
Foaly: The EIB?
Holly: (smirking) Everyone in the building."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl 1-3.)

"Who are you?" he asked.
I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox)

"A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl:The Eternity Code)

"Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder"
— Eoin Colfer (The Time Paradox)

"I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ...ah...butler, has a Sig Saucer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, aderringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun greanades concealed in variouse pockets. Anything else, Butler?"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

"I'm right there with you, darlin'. Unless you step on a landmine, in which case I'm way back in the Operations Room."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)

"Jon Spiro had not hired Pex and Chips for their debating sills. In the job interview, they had only been set one task. A hundred applicants were handed a walnut and asked to smash it however they could. Only two succeeded. Pex had shouted at the walnut for a few minutes, then flattened it between his giant palms. Chips had opted for a more controversial method. He placed the walnut on the table, grabbed is interviewer by the ponytail, and used the man's forehead to smash the nut. Both men were hired on the spot. -Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl:The Eternity Code)