Favorite quotes from fictional characters

[Unleashthelegions]

I thought that maybe we could post up quotes from books or series we enjoy and possibly lead to exploring new media or at least having a chuckle about a witty line.

I have always enjoyed detective stories, so I will start off with a quote from Pat Novak for Hire, a radio detective serial from the late 40s.

"Around here a set of morals won't cause any more stir than Mother's Day in an orphanage. Maybe that's not good, but that's the way it is. And it wouldn't do any good to build a church down here, because some guy would muscle in and start cutting the wine with wood alcohol. All you can do is try to make the books balance, and the easiest way to do that is to keep one hand on your billfold and the other hand on somebody else's."

 

[KidSexy]

"gimme sum sugar, baby."
Ash from Evil Dead: Army of Darkness

 

[Bunny97]

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
Gandalf from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[Unleashthelegions]

Maltese Falcon's Sam Spade this time, absolute classic.

• Spade: We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss Wonderly. We believed your 200 dollars. I mean, you paid us more than if you had been telling us the truth, and enough more to make it all right.

 

[XShadynzX]

"Buggerations and fuckery" -Eddie Chase from any Andy McDermott book featuring Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase

 

[LucianaGrace]

Gets me every time…

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

 

[deft]

“Gordon’s alive?”

 

[sallysparrow23]

"You know, it's funny... when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags." -BoJack Horseman

 

[Shymidwestgirl]

"I am a kite in a tornado but I have a long string. There is tension in my line. Somewhere, someone is holding onto the other end and, although it cannot spare me this storm, it will not let me be lost while I regain my strength. It is enough." ~ Karen Marie Moning

Dreamfever - urban fantasy by Karen Marie Moning. Highly recommend starting at book one if you read the series.

 

[InterestedBlonde]

"As you wish" and all that is inside those 3 little words.

~The Princess Bride

 

[Deleted member 6808749]

"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring.

 

[Cyber_Bella]

--Nick, The Wedding Date

 

[Zephreck]

"We accept the love we think we deserve."​

—Bill Anderson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

 

[UnquietDreams]

“I’ve no surety that it is. I know only parts of what I feel; I may be misnaming the whole. You dwell in my mind like a household spirit. All that I think is followed with, ‘I shall tell that thought to Eddi.’ Whatever I see or hear is colored by what I imagine you will say of it. What is amusing is twice so, if you have laughed at it. There is a way you have of turning your head, quickly with a little tilt, that seems more wonderful to me than the practiced movements of dancers. All this, taken together, I’ve come to think of as love, but it may not be.

"It is not a comfortable feeling. But I find that, even so, I would wish the same feeling on you. The possibility that I suffer it alone–that frightens me more than all the host of the Unseelie Court.”

― Emma Bull, War for the Oaks

 

[UnquietDreams]

Followed by:

“It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.”

― Emma Bull, War for the Oaks

 

[rdodger]

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!"
-- Salvor Hardin, in Foundation (by Isaac Asimov)

 

[GrimmZombie]