Within the stories we read, watch, and write, are some truly amazing lines. Lines that make us tremble with emotion and stay with us long after the details of a story fade away.
"I will think of you as dead, until my husband makes it so…then I will think of you no more."-Rob Roy (movie):
"Are there any questions?" –Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1986)
“...So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all."- Stephen King The Dark Tower IV
"My dear, I don't give a damn."-Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go
before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.-Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
"Here's the deal -- I'm the best there is. Plain and simple. I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence."-Ricky Bobby aka Will Ferrell
"This is public school, if I can keep the girls off the pole and the boys off the pipe...I get a bonus." -Principle Gibbons in Easy A.
And one of the lines I’m most proud of in my current wip: Sometimes hate doesn’t need a reason…just a target.
What’s some of your favorite lines?
"That'll do, Donkey. That'll do." Shrek ( I think there's a Charlotte's Web throwback in there, but it's been a while.)
ReplyDelete"Okay. I love you. Bye-bye!" Elvira, Tiny Toons.
"When a woman gives birth to a crak baby, you do not buy her a puppy." Emily Gilmore. Gilmore Girls.
Those are good lines, including the one from your WIP. And I LOVE that picture. So cool.
ReplyDelete"I piss excellence." I'll be laughing at that one all day.
Also, I gave you an award on my blog. :))
Love those lines. One I'm married to from my WIP:
ReplyDelete"Folks say he all but stole the ranch, but he got the bad luck for free."
That Rob Roy quote is fantastic. Unfortunately the only book I can quote from with any authority is Pride & Prejudice, and it never has the same impact of emotion.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite quotes is: "No lace, Mrs Bennett, I beg you. No lace." Mr Bennett on being overwhelmed with news of a dance.
See, not the same :-)
From my current read, first line: "The circus arrives without warning."
ReplyDeleteThis one is good, too, though I'm not sure I'll get it exactly right: "Love is a dung heap upon which I crow." Also from Rob Roy and I'll bet you can guess who says it :)
Great lines. I can never remember the really good lines I read or that I've written. With reading, I always mean to capture them but then I'm pulled to the next page and their gone. Short attention span theatre for me, I guess.
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ReplyDeleteWonderful lines. We're definitely on the same page, here. :-)
ReplyDeleteThose are great lines!
ReplyDeleteThere's a line from a novel I wrote that is among my favorites of the ones I've written: "Nobility is a paradox".
Good lines indeed. Stephen King is a mad genius, and anyone who says otherwise is a close-minded twit. Pigeonhole readers really do need to check him out. I know that's off-topic, but I'm a big King fan:)
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