[Battalion]

Mentioned above, but the best line was Kallor's when he looks down at his drink and the dirge bells are clanging outside. 'They're playing our song.' Awsome.

Also the one about the poison that kills the person next to you. I burst out laughing.

[eekwibble]

"Kruppe's War Mule charged" (paraphrase)! Bestest bit since "I'd kill the mule"!
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[zwitterion]

Remorseless Emperor;369086 said:

I think I must be the only person that actually hated the 'I shall call it Tufty' quote from Raest. It just didn't seem to fit into my conception of Reast at all.

Also, why a dead cat? And how fortunate that Antsy literally stumbled over it just when they needed it...

The whole thing just didn't work for me.

I absolutely agree about the narrative contrivance that put the thing in Antsy's path; SE is usually better than that and it wouldn't have taken a lot of work to give a cat come cameo appearances leading up to its eventual demise.

That said tho, I laughed pretty hard and I think the thing that most folks who don't find it funny are missing is the morbidity of the name. It's not supposed to be just cute, he's literally describing a mangled cat with only scattered tufts of fur left, and he's calling that cute (something perfectly concomitant with Raest's bone dry sense of humor). An image which I'm almost ashamed to say is quite comical in my mind. I'ma dredge up my favourite quotes tonight, there were tonnes as I thought this was the best written book yet.

[Mentalist]

Quote

From a window of the tower, Bedusk Kovus Agape stood watching his wife approaching up the street. 'Oh,' he murmured, 'I'm in trouble now.'

Just IMAGINING this scene... it makes me laugh. I LOVE the dry sense of humour of the Jaghut.

[Sinisdar Toste]

this humour is so dry im parched to death

[Sindriss]

Quote

shifty shadowthrone, he of the sourceless shade, a most conniving, dastardly god indeed! Chill is his shadow, cruel and uncomfortable is his throne, horrid his Hounds, tangled his Rope, sweet and seductive his innocent servants! But!' and kruppe held aloft one plump finger.
'Cutter would not speak of walking in shadows, why, not anyone's!
Even one which sways most swayingly, that cleaves most cleavingly, that flutters in fluttering eyelashes framing depthless dark eyes that are not eyes at all, but pooles of unfathomable depth - and is she sorry?
By apsalar she is not!'
'I hate you sometimes,' cutter said in a grumple...

genius!!!

[Nakorite]

i loved the early quote about Cowl giving the dragon a kicking.

[FIDDLER]

Karsa to ST and Cot.....

The Tyranny of the number counters will be a bloody one.

If you retrace this.. to the conversation between Baruk and Kruppe(396-397)...where they are discussing the lesser of two evils.......to the Empire of Lether ........to the Modern day............. what depth.........SE is GOD

"Why a Civilized one?"

This post has been edited by FIDDLER: 26 September 2008 - 03:22 PM

[FIDDLER]

Remorseless Emperor, on Aug 12 2008, 04:03 PM, said:

'There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.' - Anomander Rake.

My Signature.....i also like the first part of the quote.

I dont know how to give rep i would if i could.

[Malaclypse]

"Everyone seeks to give me gifts. I reject them all. You believe yours is wondrous. Generous. You are nothing. Your empire is pathetic. I knew village dogs who were greater tyrants than you."

Ha! Nobody knows how to say 'Fuck You and the rock you climbed out from under' better than Karsa

[Epiph]

Kurt Montandon, on Aug 7 2008, 12:04 AM, said:

The one scene where Gorlas Vidikas (sp., my books are in anther house) has what he thinks of as a vision from the gods, right before he gets himself offed by Cutter.

Reread that closely, and you realize that it's a mimicry of Kruppe's first scene in GotM, where he meets with six people, and the seventh is hanging from a tree which he passes by in disdain. The seventh is, of course, humility, which Gorlas would have done well to possess.

I noticed that and took it as, "This is how Kruppe knows everything...he's riding around in other people's minds!"

[Abyss]

Malaclypse, on Sep 26 2008, 11:48 AM, said:

"Everyone seeks to give me gifts. I reject them all. You believe yours is wondrous. Generous. You are nothing. Your empire is pathetic. I knew village dogs who were greater tyrants than you."

Ha! Nobody knows how to say 'Fuck You and the rock you climbed out from under' better than Karsa

And the follow up before the Capn dies... "You could have lied."

@RE and zwit' - I don't care what anyone says, the 'Tufty' thing was absolutely priceless and would have only been better if SE had tied it back to the cat Torvald meets earlier in the book.

- Abyss, really could have done with more cat povs and less cows.

[Quick~]

Malaclypse, on Sep 26 2008, 04:48 PM, said:

"Everyone seeks to give me gifts. I reject them all. You believe yours is wondrous. Generous. You are nothing. Your empire is pathetic. I knew village dogs who were greater tyrants than you."

Ha! Nobody knows how to say 'Fuck You and the rock you climbed out from under' better than Karsa

I shall have to quote this for considerable amounts of truth. One of my favourite Karsa lines in the series I think.

[Trull's son]

"Thus the tableau is set" a writhing mass of bokaral bodies and pust and kruppe and laughs and tears and mules and streets and a whole lotta ridiculous. in fact, it was the most hilarious kind of ridiculous! the best kind! Glad it wasn't the worst kind of terrible, but closer to the best kind of fantastic.

[Fuzzery]

"Kick open the Door, Whiskeyjack." Mallet's last thoughts, moments before his death.

I don't really understand the full significance of this quote (maybe SE just put it in because it sounded awesome, but I find that doubtful), but it really stuck with me for some reason.

This post has been edited by Fuzzery: 29 September 2008 - 03:22 AM

[Jude]

I'm not so sure I would have rather had the tufty line linked to any particular cat we had seen before. The point of that scene, I found, was to be as ridiculous and tongue and cheek and larger than life as possible; almost nonsensical. I didn't really find it trying too hard either. It was just to offer up the purest bit of "light" in the middle of pages and pages of "heavy." The fact that Antsy pulled a random dead cat out of his person was awesome, and the punch line couldn't have been better in my opinion. haha. I will admit it made me roll my eyes but I was totally ok with rolling my eyes at that moment.

Also, this thread really made me realize that maybe.. does TtH have the best one liners in the Malaverse yet? I think that maybe it does, and that might make it the most fun out of the books so far. That's weird. I think a re read is in order.

As far as awesome quotes go, I posted this somewhere else, but:

Antsy after throwing a sharper at a pack of assassins and it detonates and the smoke clears.
"Chew on that, you fucking arseholes."

[Ain't_It_Just_]

What about that passage of text where it went below Darujhistan into the caverns, where, quote (I think), "the two sisters were attempting to scratch each other's eyes out." Rofl, knew we'd get a catfight!

And after Picker's soul has left her body and Raest has demanded a dead white cat:

Antsy: Oh aye, Raest. One stuffed lumpy with cussers. Here, catch you damned bastard.

Made me laugh.

Finally, I loved the part where Dassem was instructing his soldiers to do what's right. Very moving.

[Traveller]

"I greet you as guests and so will not crush the life from you and devour your souls with peals of laughter. No, instead I will make some tea."

Great line from Gothos.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 28 October 2008 - 10:02 AM

[Ain't_It_Just_]

"The problems with lists is all the names on 'em."

Pure genius.

[Called-by-the-Voices]

"Never wise to stare into the sun," Kallor observed. "You may burn your eyes."
"It was brighter then- do you recall?"

Dunno why, but this one struck me deeply..