What's Your Favorite Quote From a Novel?

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 4:03pm

Mine:

"Reader: I Married Him."

--Jane Eyre



What's Yours?

[imcuteloveme]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 4:19pm

My signature's one of them. I have a whole bunch. Can't think of any right off the top of my head though.

[broadway86]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 4:45pm

Here's a couple:

"There is an essay on the language of dying. The dying sometimes speak of themselves in the third person. I was not speaking that way: I am bleeding, I am going to bleed to death. I know the poem. She knows the poem." - IN THE CUT, by Susanna Moore

"'Ennie', Duddits said, and touched Henry's cheek with one hand. He was smiling, and his final words were perfectly clear. 'I love you, Ennie.'" - DREAMCATCHER by Stephen King. Who said that he wasn't capable of emotion?

"And here she is, herself, Clarissa, not Mrs. Dalloway anymore; there is no one now to call her that. Here she is with another hour before her." - THE HOURS by Michael Cunningham

[zippyjen]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 4:56pm

I know it was in the movie but i can't remember if it was in the book. Anyway, it is something like "Do i listen to pop music because i am depressed or am i depressed becasue i listen to pop music?" High FIdelity

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 5:33pm

"Damaged people are dangerous, because they know they can survive." - Damage

[Mythus]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 5:34pm

It was a pleasure to burn.

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 5:35pm

"They moved together. Blue diamonds on a green field- "WICKED". the novel

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 5:39pm

from Ragtime...

"....scornful of his intentions, whipped him to the floor, launching to his cries of ecstasy or dispair, great filamented spurts of jism that traced the air like bullets and then settled slowly over Evelyn in her bed like falling ticker tape."

When I read that part, it was so unexpected and hilarious how they described it. The funny thing is, I was reading this book for school.

Updated On: 1/6/05 at 05:39 PM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 5:43pm

i am joe's complete lack of surprise.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 5:43pm

Mrs Dalloway decided to buy the flowers herself.

Actually I have two, but the other one is way too long. It's the poem from A Density of Souls.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 6:04pm

It's JACK'S complete lack of surprise, I believe, Mr Mambo. But anyone who quotes from Fight Club is ok by me.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 6:09pm

i'm pretty sure it's joe. he was jack but the articles were about joe. i immediately felt a kinship to him when he mentioned the articles because i read them myself as a kid in reader's digest. great book and great movie, man i love a damaged looking helena.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 6:11pm

"My dear, I don't give a damn." (not the same as the movie)

"Sir, you are no gentleman."
"An apt observation, and you Miss, are no lady.

Both are from Gone with the Wind, authored by Margaret Mitchell. I also enjoy a number of quotes from The Princess Bride by William Goldman.

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 6:20pm

"If more people valued food, and cheer, and song over hoarded gold, it would be a far merrier world."
--JRR Tolkien's the hobbit.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 6:29pm

"Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder. They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a mischievous way of stealing up behind them and trying to blow them out; but they are so fond of fun that they were on his side to-night, and anxious to get the grown-ups out of the way. So as soon as the door of 27 closed on Mr. and Mrs. Darling there was a commotion in the firmament, and the smallest of all the stars in the Milky Way screamed out:


"Now, Peter!"

[kjklo]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 7:48pm

"What you are marrying on, Seymour, I don't know," she said. "Neither your father nor I will be able to increase your allowance, and Nadine Waldenech has the appearance of being an expensive young woman. I hope she realizes she is marrying the son of a poor man, and that we go third class."
"She is aware of all that," said Seymour, wiping his long white finger tips on an exceedingly fine cambric handkerchief, after swallowing a sandwich or two, "and we are marrying really on her money."
"I am not sure that I approve of that," said his mother.
"The remedy is obvious," remarked Seymour, "You can increase my allowance. I have no objection. Mamma, would you kindly let me throw the rest of that sandwich out of the window? It makes me ill to look at it."
"We are not talking about sandwiches. Why do you not earn some money like other younger sons?"
"I do. I earned four pounds last week, with describing your party and other things, and there is my embroidery as well, which I shall work at most industriously. I shall do embroidery in the evening, after dinner, while Nadine smokes."

Dodo the Second E.F. Benson

Not my favorite quotation--just one that I enjoy a lot.

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 8:01pm

"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but . . . sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird"

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 8:39pm

Ragtime on Younger Brother's obsession:

"Evelyn Nesbit had caused the death of one man and wrecked the life of another and from that he deduced that there was nothing in life worth having, worth wanting, but the embrace of her thin arms."

This pretty much describes my feelings for her.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 1/6/05 at 8:40pm

"What cheer, eh?"
-- AT SWIM, TWO BOYS by Jamie O'Neill

[AndyHardy]

Posted: 1/7/05 at 2:40pm

Thank you Blue Wizard. I second your choice.

At present, I am dileriously in love with "At Swim, Two Boys": "What cheer, eh?"

Updated On: 1/7/05 at 02:40 PM

[ForTheLoveOfLea]

Posted: 1/7/05 at 7:20pm

"we live our lives, we do whatever we do, then we sleep---simple and ordinary as that. . . there's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone. . . knows these hours will inevitalbly be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more." - The Hours

Hated Mrs. Dalloway. Loved The Hours.

[cturtle]

Posted: 1/7/05 at 9:04pm

LITTLERED, i love you!

"Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah - Ah - Miss Scarlet, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. Maw wouldn' nebber lemme be 'round folkses whut wuz havin' dem."
- page 365

[Liam]

Posted: 1/7/05 at 9:06pm

the women will apreshate this one


"women are like teabags you only know how strong they are when you put them in hot water"


i think of my mom when i see that one

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 1/7/05 at 11:09pm

Thank you Blue Wizard. I second your choice.
At present, I am deleriously in love with "At Swim, Two Boys": "What cheer, eh?"

Forgive the superlative, but "At Swim, Two Boys" is one of the most haunting and beautiful books I have ever read. I don't think I've ever come across such exquisite prose. It is, IMO, the Great Gay Novel, and I hope everyone gets a chance to pick this one up from the bookstore.

[kangaroo]

Posted: 1/7/05 at 11:13pm

"Not all those who wander are lost" Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien