[Macros]

agreed, best fight scene bar the duel.
delivery of the line was perfect, especially following Achilles arogance

[WhiskeyJackDaniels]

Macros, on 26 October 2011 - 09:25 AM, said:

agreed, best fight scene bar the duel.
delivery of the line was perfect, especially following Achilles arogance

Which duel?

[Bauchelain the Evil]

WhiskeyJackDaniels, on 26 October 2011 - 08:59 PM, said:

Macros, on 26 October 2011 - 09:25 AM, said:

agreed, best fight scene bar the duel.
delivery of the line was perfect, especially following Achilles arogance

Which duel?

I presume the final duel between Achilles and Hector.

[CircleBinder]

"We go to partake of death. And it is in these moments, before the blades are unsheathed, before blood wets the ground and screams fill the air, that the futility descends upon us all. Without our armour, we would all weep, I think. How else to answer the impending promise of incalculable loss?
- Deadhouse Gates
"Redeem them, sir! It is your task. The heart of your vows - you are the walker among the dead in the field of battle, you are the bringer of peace, the redeemer of the fallen. You are the mender of broken lives. Without you, death is senseless, and the denial of meaning is the world's greatest crime to its own children."
- Memories of Ice

[CircleBinder]

Another great one:


"Come, try me, immortals, so all of you can learn.
Hang a great golden cable down from the heavenslay hold of it, all you gods, all goddesses too:you can never drag me down from sky to earth,not Zeus, the highest, mightiest king of kings,not even if you worked yourselves to death.But whenever I'd set my mind to drag you up,in deadly earnest, I'd hoist you all with ease,you and the earth, you and the sea, all together,then loop that golden cable round a horn of Olympus,bind it fast and leave the whole world dangling in mid-air—that is how far I tower over the gods, I tower over men." - Zeus, from The Illiad

[Salt-Man Z]

BLADE OF TYSHALLE by Matthew Effing Stover said:

There are some who say that Time is itself a hammer; that each slow second marks another tap that makes big rocks into little rocks, waterfalls into canyons, cliffs into beaches.

There are some who say that Time is instead a blade. They see the dance of its razored tip, poised like a venomous snake, forever ready to slay faster than the eye can see.

And there are some who say that Time is both hammer and blade.

They say the hammer is a sculptor's mallet, and the blade is a sculptor's chisel: that each stroke is a refinement, a perfecting, a discovery of truth and beauty within what would otherwise be blank and lifeless stone.

And I name this saying wisdom.

[Salt-Man Z]

Another one, just because it's so awesome:

Blade of Tyshalle said:

He flexed his hands and cracked his knuckles one by one: a series of flat, deliberate clicks of lethal intent, like bullets being loaded into a pistol.

[acesn8s]

“Did you win your sword fight?"
"Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world."
"And you wrote the software."
"Yeah. That, too,"

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

[Black Winged Lord]

Elder Scrolls 5 - Skyrim, Dark brotherhood storyline

Don't shoot me if its not 100%, but i believe it goes:

"What is the music of life?"
"Silence dear Brother"
"...Welcome"

Did a litlle fanboy squel of glee with that invitation.

[Vaddon Ra]

The quote where Tehol is comfortingUblala about his female problems hehehe made em roll

[Salt-Man Z]

On my eleventh read of my favorite book, Richard Adams' Shardik, this passage really jumped out at me for the first time. It's the final sentence that's the clincher, but it needs the context of the entire paragraph for the full effect. A wonderful statement on storytelling in general.

Quote

They tell--ah! they tell many things of Shardik's passing from Bekla, and of the manner of his setting out upon his dark journey to that unforeseeable destination appointed by God. Many things! For how long, then, was he at large within the walls of Bekla, under Crandor's summit? For as long, perhaps, as a cloud may take, in the eyes of a watcher, to pass across the sky? A cloud passes across the sky and one sees a dragon, another a lion, another a towered citadel or blue promontory with trees upon it. Some tell what they saw and then others tell what they were told--many things. They say that the sun was darkened as Lord Shardik departed, that the walls of Bekla opened of their own accord to let him pass, that the trepsis, once white, has bloomed red since that day when the prints of his feet bloodied its flowers in passing. They say that he wept tears, that a warrior raised from the dead went before him with a drawn sword, that he was made invisible to all but the king. They tell many, shining things. And of what value is the grain of sand at the heart of a pearl?

[Defiance]

Is that verbatim, Briar King? As far as I can recall, the quote is 'Mess with mortals, Poliel, and you pay.'

[Macros]

Doesn't he say it in MoI standing on the walls of capustan?

[Macros]

Naw I think its when he accepts the push from silverfox and basically warns here that mortals wont be twisted

[Eddie Dean]

"Fucking Dragons." Fiddler

[Ukjent]

Eriksons quote about life after death is just brilliant, and of course "Children dies" and then we got the sentence that summary the hole black company "Soldiers live and wonder why" - Glen Cook.

[cabald]

Long time lurker, brand new poster. This topic has been a great read and has inspired me to read some of the books mentioned here.

On topic, I'd like to add the full quote from Glen Cook's book because it made the most impact on me at the end of the series.

"Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why."

― Glen Cook, Soldiers Live

Hit me like a sack of bricks.

[RACHEL]

Suit yourself, I have to go prepare my boys to die. Clubs to Sazed in Well of Ascension.

[Salt-Man Z]

The last two paragraphs (three sentences) of Butcher's Cold Days give me chills every time:

(Not really spoilers, but just to be safe)

Spoiler

Cold Days said:

I settled the new black leather duster over my shoulders, picked up the long, rough branch I'd cut from the island's oldest oak tree a few hours before, and started back up the hill, toward the former lighthouse and future cottage. I had preparations to make.

There was a storm coming in.

[Luperci]

"History consists of nothing more than the lies we tell ourselves to justify the present"

-Stonewielder p. 273

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that"

-Dumbledore, (Harry Potter)