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 Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 7:47 pm
just as the title says, give me your best quotes from your favorite books. 3nodding If one of the crew should want to make a list of this this, by all means do so, but I've a lot to do this week sweatdrop sweatdrop let the quoting begin. 3nodding
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 5:32 am
What you had better worry about though is the people you know and trusted they would be like you because you were all made in the same batch. You need to look over your shoulder at the one who is in charge of holding you up and see if that is a knife he has in his hand. And it might not be a colored hand. But it is a knife.
If you let somebody tell you anything else you are a fool because what I have told you is right.
from Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 2:12 pm
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
From Animal Farm, by George Orwell. Of course.
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 2:21 pm
"And let us with caution induldge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion."
America: To Pray or Not to Pray? by David Barton.
I found that book, overall, quite amusing, not because I found the information in any way relevant or educational, but because the attitude of the author (one that Christianity is superior and should be forced upon schoolchildren) conflicted with all paths of reasonable thinking.
And, of course:
"Alas, earwax!"
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling.
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 2:38 pm
Sir Ichigo "And let us with caution induldge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion." America: To Pray or Not to Pray? by David Barton. That man was serious? Oh no, I feel an Emo Tear coming on. cry That man is a fool, if he is indeed serious. Doesn't he know that the only real religion is ClaraIchigoism?
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 2:39 pm
Shadow Clara Sir Ichigo "And let us with caution induldge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion." America: To Pray or Not to Pray? by David Barton. That man was serious? Oh no, I feel an Emo Tear coming on. cry That man is a fool, if he is indeed serious. Doesn't he know that the only real religion is ClaraIchigoism? It was a little scary at points. Damn straight. We need to write a book, Clara.
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 2:50 pm
Sir Ichigo Damn straight. We need to write a book, Clara. In our religion, heterosexuals are condemned and abortions are mandatory. Oh wait, that doesn't work. Oh poo. sad
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Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 10:29 am
And what a story. The first thing that drew me in was disbelief. What? Humanity sins but its God's Son who pays the price? I tried to imagine Father saying to me, "Piscine, a lion slipped into the llama pen today and killed two llamas. Yesterday another one killed a black buck. Last week two of them ate a camel. The week before it was painted storks and gray herons. And who's to say for sure who snacked on our golden agouti? The situation has become intolerable. Something must be done. I have decided that the only way the lions can atone for their sins is if I feed you to them."
"Yes, father, that would be the right and logical thing to do. Give me a moment to wash up."
"Hallelujah, my son."
"Hallelujah, Father."
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 7:51 am
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 6:41 pm
"Good isn't the absence of evil; it is our ability to rise above the shadow within."
The Charmed Sphere-Catharine Asaro
I wrote it on my bedroom wall. That's where all of my favorite quotes are biggrin !
And another is
"Enemies are the price of honor."
...but I can't seem to remember which book it is from sweatdrop .
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:31 am
There are no happy endings. Nothing ever ends.
The Last Unicorn - Beagle
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:59 pm
"If we break a promise, a word means nothing, and if a word means nothing, then we have lost the power God gave us."
"First, Annakey learned that morning to be alone. That is a great power."
"Because we fear more things than we love, our lives are blown this way and that way by our fears."
"Now who was the Dollmage? I ask you. Was it the one who made twin babies in the pregnancy doll? Twins were born. Or was it the one who made a baby boy? The boy lived."
All from Martine Leavitt's The Dollmage. Great book. A bit too short for my liking, though.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:05 am
1) " 'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die. " - "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
2)"In Fort Repose, a river town in Central Florida, it was said that sending a message by Western Union was the same as boradcasting it over the combined networks. This was not entirely true. It was true that Florence Wechek, the manager gossiped. Yet she judiciously classified the personal intelligence that flowed under her plump fingers, and maintained a prudent cnesorship over her tongue. The scandlous and the embarrassing she excised from her conversation. Sprightly, trivial, and harmless items she passed on to friends, thus enhancing her status and relieving the tedium of spinsterhood. If your sister was in trouble, and wired for money, the secret was sage with Florence Wechek. BUt if your sister bore a legitamate baby, its secx and weight would soon be known all over town." - (ok so that was the opening paragraph, but I love it!) "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank.
3) "When leaving his surgery on the morning of April 16, Dr. Bernard Rieux felt something soft under his foot. It was a dead rat lying in the middle of the landing." - (Not the first line technically, but the first line preface aside. And it really weighs on me, considering the rest of the book and all.) "The Plague" by Albert Camus
4) "There were 117 pyschoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh. God knows it was a tribute either to the shrinks' ineptitude or my own glorious unanalyzability that I was now, if anything, more scared of flying than when I began my analytic adventures some thirteen years earlier." - "Fear of Flying" by Erica Jong
5) (LAST BUT NOT LEAST) "The first time I saw the man who would save the world he was sitting near the central well in Nazareth with a lizard hanging out of his mouth." - Lamb:The Gospel According To Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Chirstopher Moore
I wrote a lot. I'm sorry. crying
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:07 pm
"Fire is bright and fire is clean."- Fahrenheit451
"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
"Don't worry, I'm not who I used to be. I've had extensive therapy. I realize that I have been using food as a substitute for love and I have the books to prove it - 'Breaking the Cycle', 'Heal Yourself in 7 Days', 'Stop Blaming Yourself, Please', and 'Help for the Bedwetting Child', which I picked up by mistake."- The Tenth Kingdom
"'Hang on..." Harry muttered to Ron. 'There's an empty chair at the staff table.... Where's Snape?'
'Maybe he's ill!' said Ron hopefully.
'Maybe he's left,' said Harry, 'because he missed out on the Defense Against the Dark Arts job again!'
'Or he might have been sacked!' said Ron enthusiastically. 'I mean, everyone hates him --'
'Or maybe,' said a very cold voice right behind them, 'he's waiting to hear why you two didn't arrive on the school train.'
Harry spun around. There, his black robes rippling in a cold breeze, stood Severus Snape. He was a thin man with sallow skin, a hooked nose and greasy, shoulder-length black hair, and at this moment, he was smiling in a way that told Harry he and Ron were in very deep trouble."- Harry Potter
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:41 pm
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But Miss Bee didn't answer, because she was entirely too busy kissing him.
From Victoria and the Rogue by Meg Cabot
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