Bestest quote or line from a book or author

[Whoa_Nelly]

Got one?

Add author or make'em guess.

Me?
Am gonna make y'all guess



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am in a tilde mood today...

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Mute, Monette thought.
There was a white word if there ever was one.
Type it on a file card and it ought to disappear.

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hint~~Famous author, lives near one of my DU phone friends who is about to move FINALLY! :bounce:

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Waht?!!!!1!

Come on outta the woodwork, you voracious readers, you!

What's your fave?

[hobbit709]

2. "You have enlarged my view of the possible"

[mcctatas]

3. My new personal motto

"Blessed are the dumbfucks."
— Christopher Moore (Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal)

[Lyric]

4. God does not play dice with the universe;

He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players , to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

~Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens, 1991

[MorningGlow]

5. ROFL you beat me to it

I had just picked "Children's parties were obviously places where any angel with an ounce of common sense should fear to tread."
:rofl:

Just about any line from Good Omens is a keeper! :hi:

[Lyric]

10. Oooo, and yet another one....

From the "Cast of Characters" part of the book:

"Crowley: An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards."

:rofl:

[MorningGlow]

11. Hmm I think it's time for a semi-annual rereading!

There are very few books I reread on a regular basis, but Good Omens is one of them!

[Lyric]

13. I love re-reading Good Omens too. It never gets

any less hilarious, no matter how many times I've read it.

[Lyric]

12. Anybody who wants to read "Good Omens" online

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6667773/good-omens

That appears to be the whole thing. :hi:

"Two of them lurked in the ruined graveyard. Two shadowy figures, one hunched and squat, the other lean and menacing, both of them Olympic-grade lurkers. If Bruce Springsteen had ever recorded "Born to Lurk," these two would have been on the album cover. They had been lurking in the fog for an hour now, but they had been pacing themselves and could lurk for the rest of the night if necessary, with still enough sullen menace left for a final burst of lurking around dawn."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Z_I_Peevey]

6. P.S.

Sorry I forgot to give you the mayonnaise.

:hippie:

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. Sounds like the ending of a couple of love relationships in my life

:rofl:

[azmouse]

7. Any quote containing Vogon poetry. Nothing else like it.

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. Mine's from Stephen King short story "Mute"

Am reading his Just After Sunset stories book that recently came out.

[BurtWorm]

14. From Flaubert

''Books . . . are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back- breaking, sweaty, time-consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands like that in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. . . . bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc.''

This is how it was rendered in a New York Times article, but the actual end of the quote is "It just stands like that in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. . . . bourgeois clamber to the top of it, and piss all over it.''