[aginor]

In this, my third re-read of Deadhouse Gates, many overlooked quotes stand out now. I list a few below:

Captain Lull to Duiker about a mission:

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"We've got a Tithansi warleader out there needs to be found, hunted down," Lull said, eyes narrow on the historian. Lull: "Sormo and Bult have volunteered some names for the task."
Duiker: "I shall dutifully record them in my List of the Fallen."

Lull and Duiker again( concerning a particular Wickan Cattle dog ):

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"Thats one ugly beast," Captain Lull said behind the historian. Duiker grunted. "Proof that their skulls are all bone and no brain."

Hilarious!!

Duiker commenting about the sappers camp:

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Look for the most disordered collection of tents and foul smelling vapors aswarm with mosquitoes and gnats and you'll have found the Malazan engineers. And in that quarter you'll find soldiers shaking like leaves, with splash-burn pockmarks, singed hair and a dark, manic gleam in their eyes.

[Defiance]

Save me a patch of grass when you go down, gentlemen.


That's one of my favorites. Don't quite know why, but it's always stood out to me.

[aginor]

 Defiance, on 08 January 2011 - 10:48 PM, said:

Save me a patch of grass when you go down, gentlemen.


That's one of my favorites. Don't quite know why, but it's always stood out to me.

Yes! Just came across that one today! Chenned said that. An old saying from the First Sword or something like that.

[Proteus]

Anyone got a page number for that last quote it was one of my favourites among hundreds of others I can no longer find.

[Hust]

 Defiance, on 08 January 2011 - 10:48 PM, said:

Save me a patch of grass when you go down, gentlemen.


That's one of my favorites. Don't quite know why, but it's always stood out to me.

Great quote. A brilliant example of gallows humour that the characters use before a battle.

[Nocturnal]

"Children are dying."
Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words."

This. This hits me every time I read through the book. Such a powerful quote

Also the one where Duiker talks about how unnamed soldiers are lucky (especially the last part):

“The unnamed soldier is a gift. The named soldier-dead, melted wax-demands a response among the living...a response no-one can make. Names are no comfort, they're a call to answer the unanswerable. Why did she die, not him? Why do the survivors remain anonymous-as if cursed-while the dead are revered? Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold?
Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living. ”

This post has been edited by Nocturnal: 17 May 2012 - 05:08 PM

[lastname]

Fid's wide-eyed stupid crack was pretty funny.

Heboric had several quotes that, I thought, were terrific.

Loved Kulp's 'foul witch' tirade (sort of) against Felisin where someone was finally calling her out instead of coddling her.

[Smoked Out Knuckle Sammy]

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Loved Kulp's 'foul witch' tirade (sort of) against Felisin where someone was finally calling her out instead of coddling her.

Yes! That was so cathartic. It comes just at the time you start to lose hope that Felisin is ever going to come around. Even if you haven't given up on yet at that point, it relieves the tension that she creates every time she opens her mouth.
Starting my 4th re-read. I felt it was necessary after FoD. Can't believe how much I still love this series.