Favorite Quotes

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

He fished for Curious Squid, so called because, as well as being squid, they were curious. That is to say, their curiosity was the curious thing about them. Shortly after they got curious about the lantern that Solid had hung over the stern of his boat, they started to become curious about the way in which various of their number suddenly vanished skywards with a splash. Some of them even became curious – very briefly curious – about the sharp barbed thing that was coming very quickly towards them. The Curious Squid were extremely curious. Unfortunately, they weren't very good at making connections.

-From ze Dizcvorld novel Jingo, by Terry Pratchett

[Flib Bigboat]

Nolan's white-hot face cracked with laughter. "Kill me? Yes, please," he said. "Especially with a book."
~The Dragon's Tooth

Honestly though, death by book doesn't sound so bad.

[Verdauga]

You're saying blunt force trauma is underrated?

[Flib Bigboat]

Whoever invented the phrase "common sense" clearly did so in order to explain what it was that he lacked.
~Anonymous

You're saying blunt force trauma is underrated?

(Is that a question directed at me or a quote?)

[Verdauga]

Both, now that you've quoted me.

[Flib Bigboat]

Oh, ok. I meant death by book wouldn't be so bad compared to

Spoiler for those who haven't read the Ashtown Burials trilogy

how Nolan eventually died.

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That, and I have never been killed by a book before, so I wouldn't know how bad it is.

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

    "Look," said Magrat desperately, "why don't I go by myself?"

    "'Cos you ain't experienced at fairy godmothering," said Granny Weatherwax.
    This was too much even for Magrat's generous soul.
    "Well, nor are you," she said.
    "That's true," Granny conceded. "But the point is...the point is...the point is we've not been experienced for a lot longer than you."
    "We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience," said Nanny Ogg happily.
    "That's what counts every time," said Granny.

-From ze Dizcvorld novel Vitchez Abroad, by Terry Pratchett

[Brother Saul]

*Quote*

-From ze Dizcvorld novel Vitchez Abroad, by Terry Pratchett

I was reading a book by Sir Terry Pratchett (in collaboration with Neil Gaiman), called Good Omens. Maybe I'll check Discworld out some day, it seems pretty funny.

Uh, here's a quote for you guys
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen."
                                                                                            -I forget

[Flib Bigboat]

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does."
~The Princess Bride

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

"The Heart is the strongest muscle."

-Braum, from League O' Legendz (Vhich Ah 'ave actually never played, but 'ave come acrozz ze character Braum on fan-art zoitez und zen looked 'im up on zeir viki- 'e zoundz major!)

[donnyjohn]

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkein

[Flib Bigboat]

"Inconceivable!"
~The Princess Bride

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

    "Listen, happy endings is fine if they turn out happy," said Granny, glaring at the sky. "But you can't make 'em for other people. Like the only way you could make a happy marriage is by cuttin' their heads off as soon as they say 'I do', yes? You can't make happiness..."

    Granny Weatherwax stared at the distant city.
    "All you can do," she said, "is make an ending."

-From ze Dizcvorld novel Vitchez Abroad, by Terry Pratchett

[Flib Bigboat]

So, late one evening, after the Supreme Custodian had sat down companionably beside him and offered him a hot drink, Simon Heap told him what he wanted to know-- that Marcia and Jenna had gone to Aunt Zelda's cottage in the Marram Marshes.
"And where exactly would that be, lad?" asked the Supreme Custodian with a sharp smile on his face.
Simon had to confess he did not know exactly.
In a fit of temper the Supreme Custodian stormed out and went to see the Hunter, who listened in silence to the Supreme Custodian ranting on about the stupidity of all Heaps in general and of Simon Heap in particular.
"I mean, Gerald-- " (For that was the Hunter's name. It was something he liked to keep quiet about, but to his irritation the Supreme Custodian used "Gerald" at every possible opportunity.) "I mean," said the Supreme Custodian indignantly as he strode up and down the Hunter's sparsely furnished room in the barracks, waving his arms dramatically in the air, "how can anyone not know exactly where their aunt lives? How, Gerald, can he visit her if he doesn't know exactly where she lives?"
The Supreme Custodian was a dutiful visitor of his numerous aunts, most of whom wished that their nephew did not know exactly where they lived.
~Magyk

[Luftwaffles]

"Her comments were like barbwire. They weren't meant to hurt me, they were meant to protect her" ~ If These Wings Could Fly.