Post a line from a book you're reading.

[mvccd1000]

Pretty sure I read this topic on DU, but it must have been on DU2 because I don't see it here. At any rate, I just read a line that made me want to post in that topic, so I'm starting another one - thank you to whoever started the original!



"Emergency Rooms are like convenience stores. They're open 24 hours a day, but you'd rather get your coffee somewhere else."
-"Shakedown" by Joel Goldman

[Scuba]

1. "The end." (It was the best line in the book!)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. But then, what can any man really know - of that which lies within a scion of Amber?

Guns of Avalon - Roger Zelazny

[FSogol]

4. Loved that series. n/t

[BlueIris]

3. "(E)very built thing has an unmeant purpose."

Adrienne Rich, from a poem in the book, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve.

[mvccd1000]

5. That's thought-provoking. (nt)

[BlueIris]

6. The book is exxxxxcellent.

Highly recommended.

[fadedrose]

13. Adrienne met my kids somewhere, apparently.....nt

[Chemisse]

7. Quote from Vanishing Acts, by Jodi Picoult

"Then, untucking the bullet from the pouch of my cheek, I swallow."

[Little Star]

8. Quote from The Reversal by Michael Connelly..

"That case is a duck without wings. The only thing to do is shoot it and eat it."

This was said by defense attorney Mickey Haller to LA county DA Gabriel Williams.

[mvccd1000]

9. How did you like that one?

Connelly is one of my favorites, but I haven't read the last 2 or so yet... waiting for the price to come down. (Fifth Witness and Reversal, I think they are.)

[Little Star]

10. I like Connelly too...

I just started this one last night. But I like it already which is no surprise to me. I most always enjoy Connelly's books.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

11. From Inferno: World at War, 1939-1945

It's a nonfiction book, I hope you'll allow the quote.

This is from a Luftwaffe officer, talking about facing a Russian enemy force that would likely overrun the German element, and the soldiers who thought about bolting:

"Nobody has the courage to act in accordance with his natural cowardice with the whole company looking on".

I just liked the courage and cowardice juxtaposition.

[russspeakeasy]

12. "silenced by humility" North River by Pete Hamill

refering to the self absorbed, silent drinkers, in a bar during the great depression.

[amyrose2712]

14. "I have always thought it was preferable to think with my brain, rather than with certain

other wrinkled parts located slightly south. I mean, seriously, don't people ever see themselves, staggering around drooling and mooning, all weepy-eyed and weak-kneed and rendered completely idiotic over something even animals have enough sense to finish quickly so they can get on with more sensible pursuits, like finding fresh meat?"- From the mind of Dexter Morgan in the novel Dearly Devoted Dexter.

[fadedrose]

15. This is stupid - from DEATH OF A CHARMING MAN

by M. C. Beaton......this is really, really, dumb.....

From the remote Highland village of Lochdubh Scotland:

The titled man has got all the ladies in the village in a tizzy,

Jimmy says:

"Women. My Nancy's got her face painted like a tart and she's dyed her hair black. Aye, and she threatened me wi' the bread knife. Whit's the world coming tae?"

"Ye've got naethin' tae worry about, " said Andrew, an older crofter whose nutcracker face was seamed and wrinkled. "I 'member when my Jeannie went daft. You know whit it was?"

"No, that I don't."

"It's the Men's Paws."

"The Whit?"

"The Men's Paws. The change. Drives the women fair daft, that it does. I talked to the doctor about Jeannie and he said, 'Jist ignore it and it'll go away,' and so it did."

[fadedrose]

16. From: THE COLD BLUE BLOOD by David Handler

Last edited Fri Apr 6, 2012, 12:10 AM - Edit history (1)

Maybe this is the wrong forum, I would not call this paragraph fiction.

(Little Star, cover your eyes, please)

Desiree is a 6'1" cop who likes cats, but:

There was no man in her bed. No man in her life. Des Mitry was off men right now, having concluded that they were vastly overrated as a species. They required huge outlays of attention, care, feeding and patience and all you got back in return from them was a full laundry hamper, an empty refrigerator and a bladder infection.

[fadedrose]

17. Same book....Mitch and Desiree are walking on the beach

"She had, without question, the longest, narrowest feet Mitch had ever seen.

'My God, what size shoe do you wear?'

'Twelve and a half double-A,' she replied, frowning. 'Why are you asking?'

'Has anyone ever told you that your feet bear a striking resemblance to a pair of skis?'"

[Rowdyboy]

18. "If you're going to be murdered, you might as well be drunk." Chelsea Cain "Evil at Heart"

[JitterbugPerfume]

19. My friend Nicholas Brady, who in his own mind

helped save the world, was born in Chicago in 1928, but then moved right to California. Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K Dick (first sentence)

[Jim__]

20. He stood in the mud: long, thin, brown in his doctor's gown of fur, with his black flapped cap ...

He stood in the mud: long, thin, brown in his doctor's gown of fur, with his black flapped cap that buttoned well under his chin and let out his brown, lean, shaven and humorous face like a woodpecker's peering out of a hole in a tree.

The sentence is from Ford Madox Ford's The Fifth Queen. It's quoted in Willam H Gass's Life Sentences at the beginning of the chapter Narrative Sentences.

[fadedrose]

21. A FALSE DAWN by Tom Lowe

This is a line thought by a tired male cop who was in homicide for 14 years:

"My joints were like spring flowers rigid from an unexpected chill."

[backtoblue]

22. "I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas"

Going Bovine by Libba Bray.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

23. "Remember that the truth is in the details....

No matter how you see the world or what style it imposes on your work as an artist, the truth is in the details. Of course the devil's there too---everyone says so---but maybe the truth and the devil are words for the same thing. It could be, you know." Stephen King, Duma Key.

[mvccd1000]

24. So many great lines in that book

I had started a notepad with several of them written down; I'm not sure I remember another book that had so many quotables in it. I think there was one about love (among many others), but I've long since lost the page I wrote on.

I guess I'll have to read the book again.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

25. An original King fan who hasn't read him in many years.

11/22/63 got me started again. I always loved his conversational style and blending of everyday/everyman events, song lyrics, popular culture that invited you along for the ride.