Favorite line in a book

One of my all time favourite books, Catch 22 has already been mentioned but there's so many good lines I thought I'd add another...

"Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other country in the world can make that statement. Think about it." He waited a moment to permit them to think about it.
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I can't remember it exactly but In one of the Edding's series one of the characters quickly explains a plan, to be told that his logic is on very thin ice.

"Of course it is, that's why you have to move across it so quickly."
 
Quokka said:
I can't remember it exactly but In one of the Edding's series one of the characters quickly explains a plan, to be told that his logic is on very thin ice.

"Of course it is, that's why you have to move across it so quickly."
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Keep those Catch 22 Quotes coming Qoukka...:D

Along similar lines here's another Eddings quote: "I always walk on thin ice. It gives my life a certian zest" spoken by Silk....:rolleyes:
 
There are so many but here are a few of my favorites:

"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Herbert, Children of Dune

"I am a sick man. I am a twisted man." - Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground

"And you, my son," Jessica asked, "are you one who gives or one who takes?"

"I am at the fulcrum." - Herbert, Dune

By the way, I have been gone for awhile on business. It's great to be back!
 
"All beauty is sad," replied the Albino, "for it fades."
-David Gemmell
 
Can I post two favorites?

"Are we lost?" asked Milo once again......
"My, my" the man mumbled. "I know one thing for certain; it's much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you're going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide..." The Fat Man The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

"Off with her head!" The Queen of Hearts Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
 
'..sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole god-damned planet.'

The Forever War Joe Haldeman
 
'You've the shadow of a smile on your face - did someone die a horrible, grisly, bloody death, o venomous one?' - from the 1st Warcraft book, 'Day of the Dragon' by Knaak...I'd read the first 20 pages in a state of mild disinterest, got to that line, and was hooked :D It's not so much my absolute favourite, but it made my personal top 10
 
"You think you defeated me!" Dr. Wellington Yueh.

He spoke it after his betrayal to Duke Leto. Before anything else was done, he was stabbed...and he uttered these words as he was dying. Little did the Harkonnens know, but Yueh already helped Lady Jessica and Paul out of Arakeen.
 
Yueh, Yueh, one million of death is not enough for Yueh !

Fine citation, Treik. ;)
 
I cannot write down all of my favourite lines, far too many. However, one conversation always makes me a little emotional...

Ít's singing to me,'Faraday whispered again. Í can feel it. Oh! It sings such a sad song. Oh Jack, it is so sad'. .....Faraday began to weep and laught at the same time, the tree's song was so sad yet so incredibly beautiful. 'They are all singing to me,'she whispered. 'The entire forest is singing to me!'
Tears squeezed out of the corner of Yr's eyes as she watched them. Tree Friend had been found at last. At last.
 
Alicia said:
Can I post two favorites?

"Are we lost?" asked Milo once again......
"My, my" the man mumbled. "I know one thing for certain; it's much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you're going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide..." The Fat Man The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

"Off with her head!" The Queen of Hearts Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Thank you thank you thank you Alicia! I read "The Phantom Tollbooth" as a child but I have not for the life of been able to remember the title of the book. It has been driving me looney.

I suppose I'd better add something relevent to the thread.

"The glory of the moon is dead", Shelly in Ode to Coleridge. Except it is a line from a poem, so not exactly a book. Except it could be in a book if it is in an anthology of poems?
 
"If I did have a tumor, I would name it Marla. Marla, the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you would stop tonguing it, but you can't." - Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club).
 
Treikayan said:
"You think you defeated me!" Dr. Wellington Yueh.

He spoke it after his betrayal to Duke Leto. Before anything else was done, he was stabbed...and he uttered these words as he was dying. Little did the Harkonnens know, but Yueh already helped Lady Jessica and Paul out of Arakeen.
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thanks for reminding me how great that book is
 
And he and Quick Ben had missed it, had come too late. The body was gone. And Ganoes Paran was bereft, his heart a vast cavern, dark, echoing with emotions he would not, could not show.

*have deleted the name of the victim*
 
This would be no time for fancy sword play. It would be hack and stand. Two handed style.

Its something like that anyway! From David Gemmel Legend.
 
Not so much a favourite line but it did have me in hysterics

"rather droll,to say such a thing." "I am never droll" the toad said. "Though you do drool on occasion! Ha ! Slimy one, yes?Ha!

From Erikson's Memories of Ice
 
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