[Crow Clan Baby]

Haven't got there yet, but "Tufty" reminds me of an old Bugs Bunny episode, where the abominable snowman captures Bugs and proceeds to exclaim "Oh boy! My very own bunny rabbit! I will hug him and squeeze him and call him George!" I wonder if SE had the same in mind...

(edit) ah, here we go. Daffy, not Bugs. http://www.imdb.com/...h0004382/quotes (/edit)

I thought the whole scene after the BBs drank the Quorl Milk was made of solid gold. "Not Antsy, too. Don't tell me..."

This post has been edited by Crow Clan Baby: 20 October 2008 - 08:42 PM

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Makes me wish we had Quorl Milk in real life...

[Azure Horizon]

I thought this was the most powerful and evocative passage in the book, spoken by Endest Silaan:

page 739

Quote

Even the High Priestess did not understand. Not all of it, no. She saw this as a single, desperate gambit, a cast of the knuckles on which rode everything. But if it failed, well, there'd be another game. New players, the same old tired rules. The wealth wagered never lost its value, did it? The heap of golden coins will not crumble. It will only grow bigger yet.
Then, if the players come and go, while the rules never change, does not that heap in fact command the game? Would you bow to this god of gold? This insensate illusion of value?

So powerful. So Nietzchean.

This post has been edited by Azure Horizon: 29 October 2008 - 11:03 PM

[Sucka27]

Just finished and I have to say my 2 favorite quotes were right at the end and within a page of each other:

Samar Dev's dry sarcasm -

Karsa glanced over at the two Toblakai girls, who stood watching, silent, expectant. 'I raped a mother and a daughter.'
'Ah, well, isn't that nice.'

Karsa and Picker -

'Toblakai, you will be needed.'
'To do what?'
'Why, to kill a god.'
'Which god?'
'You were supposed to run away when I told you that.'

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Azure Horizon, on Oct 30 2008, 10:02 AM, said:

I thought this was the most powerful and evocative passage in the book, spoken by Endest Silaan:

page 739

Quote

Even the High Priestess did not understand. Not all of it, no. She saw this as a single, desperate gambit, a cast of the knuckles on which rode everything. But if it failed, well, there'd be another game. New players, the same old tired rules. The wealth wagered never lost its value, did it? The heap of golden coins will not crumble. It will only grow bigger yet.
Then, if the players come and go, while the rules never change, does not that heap in fact command the game? Would you bow to this god of gold? This insensate illusion of value?

So powerful. So Nietzchean.

Oh please. I hear enough about gods of gold when reading about the Letherii.

[Azure Horizon]

Ain't_It_Just_, on Nov 2 2008, 03:25 AM, said:

Azure Horizon, on Oct 30 2008, 10:02 AM, said:

I thought this was the most powerful and evocative passage in the book, spoken by Endest Silaan:

page 739

Quote

Even the High Priestess did not understand. Not all of it, no. She saw this as a single, desperate gambit, a cast of the knuckles on which rode everything. But if it failed, well, there'd be another game. New players, the same old tired rules. The wealth wagered never lost its value, did it? The heap of golden coins will not crumble. It will only grow bigger yet.
Then, if the players come and go, while the rules never change, does not that heap in fact command the game? Would you bow to this god of gold? This insensate illusion of value?

So powerful. So Nietzchean.

Oh please. I hear enough about gods of gold when reading about the Letherii.

Haha, I guess this is true. I was quite sick of the greediness of pretty much every Letherii character ever introduced .

However, I do love the line in particular because of its metaphor for the people of Black Coral, and the Tiste Andii in general.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Just to iterate the quotation a little more...

Azure Horizon, on Nov 2 2008, 04:07 PM, said:

Ain't_It_Just_, on Nov 2 2008, 03:25 AM, said:

Azure Horizon, on Oct 30 2008, 10:02 AM, said:

I thought this was the most powerful and evocative passage in the book, spoken by Endest Silaan:

page 739

Quote

Even the High Priestess did not understand. Not all of it, no. She saw this as a single, desperate gambit, a cast of the knuckles on which rode everything. But if it failed, well, there'd be another game. New players, the same old tired rules. The wealth wagered never lost its value, did it? The heap of golden coins will not crumble. It will only grow bigger yet.
Then, if the players come and go, while the rules never change, does not that heap in fact command the game? Would you bow to this god of gold? This insensate illusion of value?

So powerful. So Nietzchean.

Oh please. I hear enough about gods of gold when reading about the Letherii.

Haha, I guess this is true. I was quite sick of the greediness of pretty much every Letherii character ever introduced .

However, I do love the line in particular because of its metaphor for the people of Black Coral, and the Tiste Andii in general.

I thought it was important for his character. And meaningful for his character. It definitely rang true.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

About that heap of winnings or gold or whatever...is that the lure, the temptation of more fools to be entranced by a game?

I suspect I am way off the mark.

[Azure Horizon]

Ain't_It_Just_, on Nov 3 2008, 01:51 AM, said:

About that heap of winnings or gold or whatever...is that the lure, the temptation of more fools to be entranced by a game?

I suspect I am way off the mark.

I interpreted it as a metaphor for the greediness of people in general. The High Priestess always wagered the same extreme bet in every game, and if she failed another game would come along. However, the players are always changing, the value does not. Therefore, the static, unchanging wealth is what is really "controlling" the game: be it the game that Seerdomin + Spinnock play, or the game of life itself. People then are losing themselves to wealth, rewards, and power, even though it is an illusion.

[redJAKO]

Illuyankas, on Jun 27 2008, 06:32 AM, said:

<br />This thread is for awesome quotes. Page numbers if you can be bothered.<br /><br />Page 595<br /><br />

Quote

Samar Dev rose and searched round, but darkness was fast swallowing the plain. She turned with a query on her lips, and saw that Karsa had straightened and was looking skyward, to the northeast. And there, in the deepening blue, a dragon was gliding towards them.<br /><br />'Worse than moths,' Traveller muttered.

<br /><br /><br />I fucking love this one.<br />

Hrm...I have ~20% of TtH eared and bookmarked for later review / quotation and general enjoyment of Erikson's writing.

I think all of his books have 1000 quotes I need to compile for a txt file

[zwitterion]

[quote name='redJAKO' date='Nov 13 2008, 02:14 AM' post='468389'
Hrm...I have ~20% of TtH eared and bookmarked for later review / quotation and general enjoyment of Erikson's writing.

I think all of his books have 1000 quotes I need to compile for a txt file
[/quote]
O please do, I have all my copies of mbotf in another country and will likely never get to go back to all those pages i mentally tagged with "must re-read"

[Puck]

Sucka27, on Oct 31 2008, 05:15 AM, said:

Karsa and Picker -

'Toblakai, you will be needed.'
'To do what?'
'Why, to kill a god.'
'Which god?'
'You were supposed to run away when I told you that.'

And a bit earlier, when Picker tells Karsa she's got a message from Hood for him..

Samar Dev snorted. 'Let me guess. "Keep up the good work, yours truly".'


And some others from Samar Dev, p. 596

'You are Tiste Edur,' said Karsa Orlong, and, baring his teeth, he reached for his sword.
'More than that,' said Traveller, 'one of Hoods own.'
Samar Dev spun to her two companions. 'Oh, really! Look at you two! Not killed anything in weeks - how can you bear it? Planning on chopping it into tiny pieces, are you? Well, why not fight for the privilege first?'
[...]
'I welcome you, Tulas Shorn, even if these ones do not. If they decide to attack you, I will stand in their way. I offer you all the rights of a guest - it's my damned fire, after all, and if these two idiots don't like it they can make their own, preferably a league or two away.'


p. 914 Rallick and Torvald

'That was a good one,' Rallick said, 'all that rubbish about us in our youth.'
'The challenge was in keeping a straight face.'


p.728

Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation.
None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve.
To face death is to stand alone.

[Sinisdar Toste]

Puck, on Nov 13 2008, 07:39 AM, said:

p.728

Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation.
None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve.
To face death is to stand alone.

possibly the most true and melancholy statements in the entire MBotF. beautiful.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Sinisdar Toste, on Nov 14 2008, 05:44 AM, said:

Puck, on Nov 13 2008, 07:39 AM, said:

p.728

Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation.
None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve.
To face death is to stand alone.

possibly the most true and melancholy statements in the entire MBotF. beautiful.

Wow...complete agreement here.

When Salind comes to seek a favour from Seerdomin:

"We have come seeking-"

Seerdomin laughed harshly. "We? Look behind you, priestess."

She turned to see her followers racing out the door, leaving it swinging behind them.

[BeLeG]

"Ah,but the round man digresses.Forgive this raw spasm of rage.A friend lies wrapped in canvas on the bed of a cart.Death is on its way home.Forgive."

These lines made my cry hard and at first I didn't realize why.It was the first time I saw Kruppe being angry and sad and I thought that if I had a friend like the honourable Murillio, lying dead, wrapped in canvas on the bed of a cart I would also be very angry and extremely sad.SE is awesome



"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"

And that is why Anomander Rake is the King of High House Awesome.After 700 pages where every damn character thinks about the futility of life,civilization,war,love etc Rake reminds us that whining is for wimps like Traveller,Duiker,Cutter and Nimander.The Son of Darkness is not afraid to sacrifice himself because he has LIVED!

[Salt-Man Z]

One of my favorite lines was from early in the book, where Kruppe is at the Phoenix, and asking for wine or whatever (I wish I actually owned the book, so I could look this up*) and the word "discover" is being bandied about cleverly. And then Kruppe looks down into his purse: "Meese, another discovery..." End section. Brilliant.

(*Some very special no-rep to whomever can look up and post that passage for me.)

[Mcflury]

Salt-Man Z, on Dec 5 2008, 08:50 PM, said:

One of my favorite lines was from early in the book, where Kruppe is at the Phoenix, and asking for wine or whatever (I wish I actually owned the book, so I could look this up*) and the word "discover" is being bandied about cleverly. And then Kruppe looks down into his purse: "Meese, another discovery..." End section. Brilliant.

(*Some very special no-rep to whomever can look up and post that passage for me.)

I looked it up for you because you made me remember that scene and I too loved it dearly. As a result of that, you need not give me no-rep
Here it is: (of course, the whole conversation between Meese and Kruppe that leads up to this (after Kruppe talked to Mallet first) is a fair two pages long, but this is how eventually the conversation ends) (Meese just asked Kruppe to finally pay up for the expensive bottle of wine she had to fetch him in another bar because basically Kruppe didn't think the Phoenix's Inn best wine was good enough blablabla)

TtH page 66 said:

Sighing, Kruppe reached into the small purse strapped to his belt, probed within the leather pouch, then, brows lifted in sudden dismay: 'Dearest Meese, yet another discovery...'

(so you were fairly accurate on your remembering the quote )

[WWQBD?]

Fuzzery, on Sep 28 2008, 10:20 PM, said:

"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.

Oh man...this one had me going for DAYS! I was doing okay until that line, then I started sniffling a little bit.

And I would mumble that to myself for a while after...not crazy at all.

[Mcflury]

WWQBD?, on Dec 5 2008, 10:26 PM, said:

And I would mumble that to myself for a while after...not crazy at all.

Hahah, awesome! I have the same thing... well, not with that specific quote, but I tend to suddenly say, in crappy situations "Hood take me..." or "Fener's tits" or stuff like that. I also tend to wonder what I'd do if suddenly the Hounds of Shadow popped up in the dark street I'm walking in... Yeah, I used to be afraid in the dark... then I fell in love with its mystery... now I'm walking this very same darkness wondering what I'd do if certain characters from a fictionous series popped up in front me. I'm still trying to figure out if I'd have the balls to look Rake in the eyes if he shows up. I guess it's just another proof of how awesome SE's writings are.

PS: yes, I'm almost 100% sure that if a shrink would have to examine me I'd have to be sent to a mental institute right away.

[Lisheo]

Hood's balls and Beru fend.

I say them sometimes.

People stare at me.

But they can't hold me down.