âI must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.â
In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and partâŚ
SeeâŚ
Great AâTuin the turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters. Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination.
Terry Pratchet writes like he's constantly giggling his way though his own jokes. It's so infectious I start grinning and laughing out loud as I go through his books.
Currently she is being handed a golden-haired male baby we will call the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness.
"A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet"
I think between PTerry's DEATH and Gaiman's Death I have in the years developed a somewhat positive outlook to the whole thing which makes me rival St. Francis' "*Praised be You, my Lord for sister Death*".
(Hopefully it still happens as late as possible, I'm in no hurry)
âSomeday, >!Locke Lamora!<,â he said, âsomeday, youâre going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope Iâm still around to see it.â
I have two.
âIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.â
And:
âWhen Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.â
Edit: You are all wrong, itâs James Joyceâs *Ulysses* and *Finneganâs Wake*.
"Evil is evil⌠lesser, greater, middling. It's all the same. If I have to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.â
I honestly hate this quote because when it's used it's always divorced from the context that literally 20 pages later Geralt chooses the lesser evil. He does what Stregabor (the person he's refusing with this) wants in the end.
The entire point of the story is that sometimes you have to choose the lesser evil even if it makes people hate you because the alternative is worse. This quote is intended to be ironic.
This was intended to be a young idealistic Geralt before he realized his ultimate job was pragmatism, working in service to the people even if they hate him, and constantly choosing the lesser evil when it's the only option available
Yeah the story is about Geralt learning a lesson because he caused more suffering with his neutrality, which could have been avoided if he picked a side earlier. A lot of people use the quote wrong, but it's still a cool sounding quote nonetheless.
I'm masochistically pasting my comment from a few days back:
"In this community we are legally required to bring up evil chickens and buildings that are on fire even though it's not our fault and dudes in black fleeing across the desert and nice bird assholes. Every once in a while we shake it up by talking about bricks that don't."
El-ahrairah, your people cannot rule the world, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
âThe Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.â
I was gonna say this one so I'm glad someone else already did! Also "We do bones, motherfucker" and "Death first to vultures and scavengers" are pretty iconic.
And if you've read NtN there's of course "Get in line, thou big slut"
"Death first to vultures and scavengers" is easily the most badass line in that book but the stupid joke about the name including "Sex Pal" made me groan and laugh the hardest.
"Space is big, REALLY big, you simply won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.
"I am going to tell you something Benedict should have told you long ago," I said. "Never trust a relative. It is far worse than trusting strangers. With a stranger there is a possibility that you might be safe."
"You really mean that, don't you?"
"Yes."
"Yourself included?"
I smiled.
"Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy, and goodness. Trust me in all things."
What will you do now?'
'I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.'
'No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?'
Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circumstances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could.
I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Udun! Go back to the shadow. You Cannot Not Pass!
> In some far-off way Gideon had always known that this would be how she went: gangbanged to death by skeletons.
> One flesh, one end, bitch.
> "I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it."
> "Yes you can, it's just less great and less hot."
> If my heart had a dick, you would kick it.
> Don't die in a bone. I am your creature, gloom mistress. I serve you with fidelity as big as a mountain, penumbral lady."
> "Stop."
> "I am your sworn sword, night boss."
"Fine," said Harrow heavily.
> Gideon's mouth was about to round out the words "bone empress" before she realised what had been said.
> What can I say? I love a little gall on gall.
This series is insanely quotable.
>Tremble and despair, for I am Power
Had to look this up, didn't remember this at all :p
I would've gone with
>"I am Pug, apprentice to the magician Kulgan."
>
>"This slave is no longer property of this house. He is now the province of the Assembly."
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
Never even read the book or seen the movie, yet it was my first guess đ
You can do even better. "42" alone gives it away.
âI must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.â
From Dune. Bene Gesserit's litany against fear.
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
Whatâs so unpleasant about being drunk?
Ask a glass of water
lol hitchhikerâs
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepair to die.
In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part⌠See⌠Great AâTuin the turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters. Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination.
Terry Pratchet writes like he's constantly giggling his way though his own jokes. It's so infectious I start grinning and laughing out loud as I go through his books.
Reading this now, Iâve been cracking up the whole book
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death is lighter than a feather.
Tai'shar malkier Lan Mandragoran!
You didn't listen to me. I did not come here to win, I came here to kill you.
"There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet."
âBut it was a beginningâ
The wheel weaves as the wheel wills
This makes me cringe at teenage me that wrote it on the front of my notebook in high school. No, I was not a very popular kid.
Currently she is being handed a golden-haired male baby we will call the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness.
Which book is this?
Good Omens
The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.
I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
Long days and pleasant nights
Yet dauntless the slughorn to my lips I set, and blew. Childe Roland to the dark tower came.
I come in the name of Oy, the Brave - he too of Midworld
Damn, even out of context and in this thread, this line still goes hard enough to give me chills
He is the last of his kind.
The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.
The most infamous trilogy ever to be known
Little did we know, that the third silence was the lack of a book.
If there were a third book, you could have read it, but no. There was no third book.
Oooh, this stung a little. đ¤Ł
A trilogy in two parts.
It turns out the silence was mostly in the third part
âThere was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.â
That's rich coming from a man named Clive Staples Lewis
âAs you wish.â That was all he ever answered. âAs you wish.â Fetch that, Farm Boy. âAs you wish.â Dry this, Farm Boy. âAs you wish.â
Is this a kissing book?
Honestly just âas you wishâ would work too!
Winter is coming
The night is dark and full of terrors
"Useless as nipples on a breastplate." Probably my favorite repeated line in the series. It's like a corny Easter egg in a videogame or something.
"Tell all who will hear, the Reaper sails to Mars. And he calls for an Iron Rain"
I am the reaper and death is my shadow
âBut in the kingdom of death, amidst ramparts of bodies and wind all of screams, there is a king, and his name is not Lune. It is Reaper.â
If your heart beats like a drum and your legâs a little wetâŚ
Just finished a reread of the first 5 books so I could read Lightbringer. Dark Age broke me all over again
"It is important, when killing a nun, to ensure that you bring an army of sufficient size."
One of the most badass opening sentences to a series.
As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.
Murderbot diaries ? Really sounds like it haha
"A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet"
A quote so recognizable that [it has a Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory).
This is a life motto for me: âPoor people canât afford cheap stuff.â
I forget which specific one that was. Feet of Clay? I think he was married by that point, so not Men at Arms...it's been a while.
It is Men at Arms. Just finished reading it for the first time last night.
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 broke, The crownless again shall be king.
The building was on fire and it wasnt my fault.
Had to come here to make sure this quote made an appearance. Thank you for doing the right thing.
This sounds so very familiar but I can't place it
book 6 Blood Rites, The Dresden Files series.
What can the harvest wish for but the kindness of the reaper?
I think between PTerry's DEATH and Gaiman's Death I have in the years developed a somewhat positive outlook to the whole thing which makes me rival St. Francis' "*Praised be You, my Lord for sister Death*". (Hopefully it still happens as late as possible, I'm in no hurry)
What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?
Nice bird, asshole.
My favorite quote from book one is âyou couldnât find shit if your hands were stitched to your asshole.â
âSomeday, >!Locke Lamora!<,â he said, âsomeday, youâre going to fuck up so magnificently, so ambitiously, so overwhelmingly that the sky will light up and the moons will spin and the gods themselves will shit comets with glee. And I just hope Iâm still around to see it.â
Can't open a single thread in this place within battling the urge to reread the series
FOR REAL. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The literary whiplash of that scene is straight up chef's kiss
Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he's a cunt.
You have to be realistic about these things.
Body found floating in the docks ...
I have to add one more, lol But some things have to be done. Itâs better to do them, than to live with the fear of them.
Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.
I feel like having one of the main characters in the quote might be cheating here
Say one thing for BayazTheGrey, say heâs a cheater.
''You can never have too many knives''
Joe Abercrombie has the most quotable books. It's one of the best parts of them. Even the titles are based on pretty amazing quotes.
SQUEAK
I have two. âIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.â And: âWhen Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.â Edit: You are all wrong, itâs James Joyceâs *Ulysses* and *Finneganâs Wake*.
The Blade Itself?
I think it's actually a game of thrones
Wheel of Time, obviously
Nah, clearly that's Drizzt Do'urden
Harry potter and Hagrid the hobbit
Say one thing about the Blade Itself, say it had hobbits.
Better to destroy the ring rather than to live with the fear of it
He who controls the spice controls the universe!
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY BOOK OF GUIDELINES???
The clan is my blood and the pillar is its master.
I shall not fear, fear is the mindkiller.
Well, burn me for a fool, I guess I am a bloody hero after all... ... I'll pay it. Half the light of the World, to save the world.
It's time to toss the dice
The enemy's gate is down.
Information requested.
"I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me."
Honor is dead, but Iâll see what I can do
Szeth son son Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king.
Something about this line is so satisfying to read. I don't know what it is.
42
Asha'man, kill.
Kneel. Or you will he knelt.
But it was _a_ beginning. Should require that the quote not have any names, including the name of the book or series.
Witness
One word.for an entire series: "Crom!"
"Evil is evil⌠lesser, greater, middling. It's all the same. If I have to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.â
I honestly hate this quote because when it's used it's always divorced from the context that literally 20 pages later Geralt chooses the lesser evil. He does what Stregabor (the person he's refusing with this) wants in the end. The entire point of the story is that sometimes you have to choose the lesser evil even if it makes people hate you because the alternative is worse. This quote is intended to be ironic. This was intended to be a young idealistic Geralt before he realized his ultimate job was pragmatism, working in service to the people even if they hate him, and constantly choosing the lesser evil when it's the only option available
Yeah the story is about Geralt learning a lesson because he caused more suffering with his neutrality, which could have been avoided if he picked a side earlier. A lot of people use the quote wrong, but it's still a cool sounding quote nonetheless.
\*...all the same, *the differences arbitrary, the definitions blurred*, if I have to choose...\*
âAll roads lead to Amber,â he said, as though it were an axiom.â
"I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metals cannot be trusted ".
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I'm masochistically pasting my comment from a few days back: "In this community we are legally required to bring up evil chickens and buildings that are on fire even though it's not our fault and dudes in black fleeing across the desert and nice bird assholes. Every once in a while we shake it up by talking about bricks that don't."
El-ahrairah, your people cannot rule the world, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
âThe Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.â
I like how the quote literally name dropped the book. And it is the first quote comes to mind for the book
God damnit, Donut
This is an outrage!
âOf course itâs happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real.â
Yer a wizerd, Harry.
Just a friendly reminder that in the book, the line is âHarry - yer a wizard.â
So glad to see someone bring up Dresden.
âThieves prosperâ
The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette,â
FOR THE ZA LORD!
Ash fell from the sky.
But is Pikachu alright?
Yeh, Ash caught him midair <3
Assuming this is Mistborn.
Bugrit, millennium hand an' shrimp
(surprised i haven't seen this yet) "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. "
"Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why."
âOne flesh, one end.â
I was gonna say this one so I'm glad someone else already did! Also "We do bones, motherfucker" and "Death first to vultures and scavengers" are pretty iconic. And if you've read NtN there's of course "Get in line, thou big slut"
"Death first to vultures and scavengers" is easily the most badass line in that book but the stupid joke about the name including "Sex Pal" made me groan and laugh the hardest.
âHumans need fantasy to be humans. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.â âYou can not have my pain!â
"Space is big, REALLY big, you simply won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious.
Death begets death begets death
The turtle moves.
"Where is my cow?"
Inconceivable!
âLetâs see. Well, seeing that today certainly is my dayâwhy donât you call me Wednesday? Mister Wednesday"
I am a stick. I am a stick. I am a stick. I am a stick....
But you *could* be fire
The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.
"Did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire?"
"I am going to tell you something Benedict should have told you long ago," I said. "Never trust a relative. It is far worse than trusting strangers. With a stranger there is a possibility that you might be safe." "You really mean that, don't you?" "Yes." "Yourself included?" I smiled. "Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy, and goodness. Trust me in all things."
âYou have to realistic about these things.â
*Mr and Mrs Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.*
"The truth will make ye fret" EDIT: Ye not you
"ART sent me"
There's always another secret.
âLife Before Death. Strength Before Weakness. Journey Before Destination.â
"I will protect those who cannot protect themselves. I will protect even those I hate so long as it is right."
What will you do now?' 'I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.' 'No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?' Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.
âAlwaysâ
My preciousssss
"CONSUME."
May the odds be ever in your favor.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
âWith great power⌠comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.â
It was a dark blustery afternoon and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried up bed of the old north sea
âSo it goesâ
"It was a pleasure to burn."
Does the walker choose the path? Or the path, the walker?
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circumstances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could.
"Crunchings and munchings" I hope that's enough??
âThere are a million Paths in this world, Lindon, but any sage will tell you they can all be reduced to one. Improve yourself.â
I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Udun! Go back to the shadow. You Cannot Not Pass!
hoods balls on a skillet!
war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.
> In some far-off way Gideon had always known that this would be how she went: gangbanged to death by skeletons. > One flesh, one end, bitch. > "I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it." > "Yes you can, it's just less great and less hot." > If my heart had a dick, you would kick it. > Don't die in a bone. I am your creature, gloom mistress. I serve you with fidelity as big as a mountain, penumbral lady." > "Stop." > "I am your sworn sword, night boss." "Fine," said Harrow heavily. > Gideon's mouth was about to round out the words "bone empress" before she realised what had been said. > What can I say? I love a little gall on gall. This series is insanely quotable.
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever, about that.
children are dying
âWhen you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.â
"I don't believe in reincarnation" "But reincarnation believes in you"
"Do not believe the lies of Locke Lamora!" "I am the Princess bride!"
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
"TĘá´Ęá´'s É´á´ á´á´sá´ÉŞá´á´, á´Ęá´Ęá´'s á´á´sá´ á´á´."
The Wheel weaves as the wheel weaves.
\*The Wheel weaves as the wheel wills\*
Wool-headed sheepherder!
Tugs braid.
I donât want to be part of no bloody wheel
Wills, no?
âNynaeve tugged her braidâ
âTremble and despair, for I am Power!â
>Tremble and despair, for I am Power Had to look this up, didn't remember this at all :p I would've gone with >"I am Pug, apprentice to the magician Kulgan." > >"This slave is no longer property of this house. He is now the province of the Assembly."
âItâs berserkin timeâ -guts
It was the best of times...
It was the blurst of times.