Good Lines from books you've been reading

[ChloeTzang]

One of the things I always keep in mind when reading anything are, there are always good, lines, expressions, phrases and the like that it's worth keeping in mind to resuse, adapt, twist, make use of and generally just use in your writing.

Thought I'd start this thread just to open a place to dump them for anyone that's interested. Theer ARE some classics out there, and what inspiured this was

"....they were probably eating pizza of a Russian stripper's chest..."

 

[Robin_Starveling]

"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him; they crush those beneath them."

 

[TheRedLantern]

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

 

[StillStunned]

“The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts." - The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
I gripe at the man for not finishing the series, but damn can he write.


"If Glokta had been given the opportunity to torture any one man, any one at all, he would surely have chosen the inventor of steps." - The Blade Itself, by Joe Abercrombie
You know a writer is good when the torturer is the most relatable character in the series.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Mother Dark had turned away. She had left them to fates of their own devising, and in so doing, she had taken away their privilege of blaming someone else. - Stephen Erickson

 

[onehitwanda]

“The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts." - The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss
I gripe at the man for not finishing the series, but damn can he write.

Fucker better do it or I will go and wee on his grave.

 

[AG31]

One of the things I always keep in mind when reading anything are, there are always good, lines, expressions, phrases and the like that it's worth keeping in mind to resuse, adapt, twist, make use of and generally just use in your writing.

Thought I'd start this thread just to open a place to dump them for anyone that's interested. Theer ARE some classics out there, and what inspiured this was

"....they were probably eating pizza of a Russian stripper's chest..."

“The earth, from here, is like heaven. It flows with colour. A burst of hopeful colour."
From Orbital by Samantha Harvey - A book about 6 astronauts on a space station, orbiting the earth 6 times a day.

Here's a link to a bunch of other quotes from the same beautifully written book.

 

[alohadave]

From "Sea of Tranquility":

“You know the phrase I keep thinking about?” a poet asked, on a different panel, at a festival in Copenhagen. “ ‘The chickens are coming home to roost.’ Because it’s never good chickens. It’s never ‘You’ve been a good person and now your chickens are coming home to roost.’ It’s never good chickens. It’s always bad chickens.”

 

[MaximTerhune]

“By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.”
Tom Robbins.