Discussion: The Quote that You can NEVER forget!

Is there are quote from any book that you can think of right now that you absolutely love?  Can you post it here? Paraphrasing is fine as long as we get the essence of it.
My thoughts create the world.

Wit beyond measure is mans greatest treasure.

After all this time? Always.

Do not pity the dead harry, pity the living and above all those who live without love.

Don't ever tell anybody anything.  If you do, you start missing everybody

Come on you second-hand litterature, pull the trigger.
Guess where they are from :)

Why is it so meaningful for you? The way it's put, you know how sometimes you just can't verbalize something without sounding like an idiot saying "um" and "like you know". Also,  because it had some memorable factor to it; truth, shock, funny, wise, etc.

  Do you think the author's style and choice of words have the potential of making a particular part memora? Most definitely. Without being verbiage or dumbing down the dialouge, it strikes the reader more.
Edited by -Navi - 14 years ago

At the moment, the only quote, from a book, that i can remember that I adore, is from Eclipse. And considering the fact that I really did not enjoy the series (something about Bella just irked me) it says a lot about Meyer's writing.

A whole chapter, and it was one line long. Jacob Black is awesome.

'Life sucks and then you die.'

I seriously found this quote both true, and hilarious. I think Meyer had an unintentional pun in it. The ;sucks' bit, and her book being about vampires, and Jake referring to losing Bella to a vampire. I found it hilarious. And this quote has gotten me through tough times.

An author's writing definitely has the potential to make or break the book, or scene. For example, JK Rowling's writing of Harry-Ginny in HBP completely threw me. For someone who usually wrote well, she completely trashed how I saw HG, and made me turn to fanfictions for a better written alternative. On the other hand, Meyer wrote the pack in her series pretty well, though I didn't enjoy the series overall. Go figure.

Great post Mahi Di! Thank you!

Love,
Radz

Harry Potter is not a romance series, romance only came up because it naturally had to because Harry was coming of age so it would've been weird if he was like asexual. Actually there are very cute little H/G scenes in the books prior to HBP. Like in GoF, in the chapter before the Yule Ball I believe there was a part when everyone was laughing about Ron yelling/asking out Fleur and then Harry mentions he asked Cho out, and there's a line where it says something like "Ginny stopped smiling" but better written. I don't get how some people say that Harry-Ginny was random, when it was anything but. It just took Harry some time. I only started liking Harry-Ginny like spring of this year when I re-read the series after quite some time.

I believe that "Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn", taking Stephen Kings words.
Edited by -Navi - 14 years ago

^^ Navi, I'm not saying that she can't write. Jo Rowling can write, much better than Meyer actually. Just, the way she expressed HarryGinny in HBP? The whole 'monster in his chest' thingy? If she wanted to put in romance, the subtle bits of it in the earlier books were much better than the romance angle in HBP. The rest of the book was alright in my opinion.

Love,
Radz

well im a qoute person.. when i sit to read books i sit with a pencil in hand and underline all the brilliant lines i find..

lovely topic...

Originally posted by: -Navi

Harry Potter is not a romance series, romance only came up because it naturally had to because Harry was coming of age so it would've been weird if he was like asexual. Actually there are very cute little H/G scenes in the books prior to HBP. Like in GoF, in the chapter before the Yule Ball I believe there was a part when everyone was laughing about Ron yelling/asking out Fleur and then Harry mentions he asked Cho out, and there's a line where it says something like "Ginny stopped smiling" but better written.I don't get how some people say that Harry-Ginny was random, when it was anything but. It just took Harry some time. I only started liking Harry-Ginny like spring of this year when I re-read the series after quite some time.

I believe that "Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn", taking Stephen Kings words.

This is my fav. one from Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key  that I really like. If you haven't read it, you really should.  

@ Arushi- Both very beautiful especially the Clock one. Loved it, Might use it on my next signature

@MusicalAiswarya - Beautiful

Well I can't remember where I read it sorry😳 but here goes -

-Nothing lasts forever, so live it up, drink it down. laugh it off, avoid all the bulls**t take chances and never have regrets because at one point everything you did was exactly what YOU wanted.

- True Love doesn't have a happy ending, it doesn't have an ending.
Edited by hannahdmg - 14 years ago