favorite quotes!

[Aeoryi she/her]

The best traitor is your closest friend.

Each betrayal is sweeter than the last

Murder is like potato chips - you can't stop with just one

My moral compass is a roulette wheel

Edited July 29, 2023 by Aeoliae
Funny ones

[SmilingPanda19 Any!]

“Inhale Mustache, Exhale Confidence.” - My friend 

“An essay a day keeps the happiness away!” - My very fun English teacher 

[Silver Phantom he/him]

“If you want something bad, you have to fight for it. Step up your game Scott, break out the L word.”

[Edema Rue she/her]

“Just imagine how terrible it might have been if we’d been at all competent.”

-Good Omens.

[Cash67]

“One did not write the ending of a lifetime of faith with a sloppy last chapter”

The Way of Kings

[ʟɪɢʜʈ]

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to do what is right, because it is right.

— Brandon Sanderson

[The Isochronism he/him]

I choose to run towards my problems, and not away from them. Because's that what heroes do.

-Thor

[Wittles he/him]

Accept the pain, but do not accept that you deserve it.

-Hoid/Wit/Brandon Sanderson

[Ravenclawjedi42]

“Journy before destination, you bastard” -Navani Kholin/Brandon Sanderson

Edited August 23, 2023 by Ravenclawjedi42

[Ookla de los Cuervos he/him]

"you cannot spell"
-me, to my friends

[Treamayne]

Bernard - Codex Alera book three:

Spoiler

  Bernard’s voice suddenly rang out sharp and clear, though still perfectly polite in tone. “Senator. If you call my friend a liar one more time, I will take it badly.”

  “Excuse me?” Arnos said, his eyebrows rising up.

  “I suggest you find an alternate shortsighted, egomaniacally ridiculous reason to blatantly, recklessly ignore an obvious threat to the Realm; simply because you don’t wish it to exist. If you cannot restrain yourself from base slander, I will be pleased to meet you in Juris Macto* and personally rip your forked tongue from your head.”

  The muttering in the room stopped, and a bottomless silence fell.

*Juris Macto - "Trial by fist" (a.k.a. Duel to the death)

 

[ʟɪɢʜʈ]

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And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the
fresh delight of experiences lived.

—Brandon Sanderson

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Let your actions defend you, not your words.

—Brandon Sanderson

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Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

—Brandon Sanderson 

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What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly. imeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

-Brandon Sanderson

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Life breaks us. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.

—Brandon Sanderson

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And if thou shouldst be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good.

—D+C, 122

Here are some of my top ones.

[Lord Spirit he/him]

What are some iconic quotes from books or elsewhere? They can be funny, inspiration or random.

“All children, except one, grow up.” -J.M Barrie, Peter Pan

"Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king." -Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

"Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy." Roonwit, The last Battle

"I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.” Samwise Gangee, Return of the King

 

 

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

"Ash fell from the sky," - Mistborn.

"There's always another secret," - Mistborn.

"The boy who lived!" - Harry Potter.

"You cannot have my pain!" - Oathbringer.

"A hypocrite is merely a man in the process of changing," - Oathbringer.

"Journey before pancakes," - Stormlight Archives (What, I can't remember the specific book it was in...)

[Ravenclawjedi42]

“I am a stick,” -Stick, Words of Radiance

[Ravenclawjedi42]

“One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end. The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations.” -Narrator, A Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

I don’t know why I love this quote so much. I just do.

[Through the Living Elan He/Him]

“Grow the lawn and mow the lawn.

Always keep the TV on.

Brush your teeth and kill the germs

Poison apples, poison worms.”

“The missing aren’t missing, they’re only departed”

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

"Journey Before Pancakes."

[Edema Rue she/her]

19 minutes ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

"Journey Before Pancakes."

WRONG PANCAKES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE JOURNEY

[ʟɪɢʜʈ]

“Waffles before pancakes.”

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

2 minutes ago, Edema Rue said:

WRONG PANCAKES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE JOURNEY

crap- it was Pancakes Before Destination, wasn't it?

[Rallohir]

"You see, that's the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny." 

 - The main man himself, Brandon Sanderson

[Aeoryi she/her]

"I didn't think you would get this far. But I didn't think you would go farther. And I never expected you to go too far"

"The slope isn't exponential, it's just a line. A little crooked at times, but still a line."

"It's not about how much you can lift, it's about that grit"

"I was born at a very young age."

"Music is violent. Hence why people have to make it better."

[Lord Spirit he/him]

Princess Bride has way too many great lines.

Narrator:

Spoiler

“When I was your age, television was called books.”

“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.”

Vizzini

Spoiler

“Inconceivable!"

"Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line."

“You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen"

"Probably some local fisherman, out for a pleasure cruise, at night in eel-infested waters."

Inigo

Spoiler

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”

“I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed."

“Stop saying that word."

Wesley

Spoiler

“Who says life is fair, where is that written?”

“Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.”

“As you wish...”

"Life is pain, anyone who says otherwise is obviously selling something!”

“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”

"I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,"

"We are men of action. Lies do not become us."

Miracle Max

Spoiler

 

"True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”

“Have fun storming the castle!”

"I'm not a witch, I'm your wife"

 

 

Edited October 4, 2023 by Lord Spirit

[Treamayne]

15 hours ago, Lord Spirit said:

What are some iconic quotes from books or elsewhere? They can be funny, inspiration or random.

Doesn't this already exist in this thread, 22 pages of quotes and counting. 

Not that I am averse to multiple, but there should be a significant difference in that case. Such as, if the OP was willing to organize them on the first page (by source, book and/or author, maybe) - or if one was specifically books and a separate thread for movies and/or games. . .