[f4nat1c]

bcarson, on 28 March 2012 - 02:52 PM, said:

"That's not nice"

Ublala Pung when finding Calm kneeling over the dead Mappo.

That I would say is a spoiler.

[f4nat1c]

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'Tell me,' said Captain Kindly, 'is there a cure for thinning hair?'
'Sir, Well, of course.'
'What is it?'
'Shave your head. Sir.'
'It looks to me as though you don't have enough things to do, Healer. Therefore, proceed through the squads of your company to mend any and every aliment they describe. Oh, delouse the lot besides, and check for blood blisters on the testicles of the men--I am certain that's a dread sign of something awry'

[worry]

f4nat1c, on 29 March 2012 - 06:43 AM, said:

bcarson, on 28 March 2012 - 02:52 PM, said:

"That's not nice"

Ublala Pung when finding Calm kneeling over the dead Mappo.

That I would say is a spoiler.

Spoilers are fine in this subforum for any published Malazan book, so maybe actually read the description and then use some personal responsibility instead of blaming someone else for your mistake.

[MTS]

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He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony.
Imagine a world without such souls.
Yes, it should have been harder to do.

[King Lear]

"Fucking dragon."

[Ivanr the Deliverer]

"All paths that arise from within partake of the divine"
---Ipshank

[Phaedrus]

"Crypt walls. We all have them, there inside - You dont go there often do you? It's where you keep your dead. Dead relatives, dead dreams, dead promises. Dead selves, so many of those, so many. When you loot you only take the best things. The things you can use, the things you can sell. And when you seal it all up again the darkness remains. It remains. Ah, mother it remains. My crypt. My crypt walls."


"Are you there father? Desorban, my son, oh precious son- I put that sword in your hand. I pretended to be proud, even as fear curled black talons round my heart. Later, when I looked down at your so-still face, when all the others were singing the glory of your brave moments, yes, all you had - I pretended that the music eased the hurt in my soul. I pretended, because to pretend was to comfort them in turn, for the time when they stood in my place, looking down on the face of their own beloved. Son? Are you there? Crypt walls. Scenes and faces. In the dark, you cant even see the paint."

"Greed and ambition, Saddic. Greed and treachery. Greed and justice. These are the reasons of fate, and every reason is a lie."

Fuck after reading this chapter I cant sleep. I cant stop thinking about this shit... This book is so intense Im actually feeling somewhat angry right now- not at the book itself of course, but how every fucking line can be applied to our own species.

[Brujah]

‘Is he your lover now?’
She halted at the doorway. ‘And if he was?’
‘Just as well,’ Karsa said, now glowering down at his patchy armour. ‘I would break you in two.’



Mogora: "What if I told you I was pregnant?"

Iskaral Pust: "I'd kill the mule."

[Nocturnal]

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"Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat."

^ I think that's the quote that warmed me up to the series.

Posted in the DG thread:

Nocturnal, on 17 May 2012 - 05:06 PM, said:

"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. "

From MoI:

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"Kallor said: 'I walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?'
Yes,' said Caladan Brood, 'you never learn."

"War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life."

"Envy shrugged. 'Can no value be found in good intentions?'
'What, precisely, are you trying to justify? And to me, or yourself?'
She glared, then quickened her pace. 'You're no fun at all,' she sniffed as she pulled qhead, 'and presumptuous as well. I'm going to talk with Tool, his moods don't swing!'
No, they just hang there, twisting in the wind."

And I think HoC had the most humorous moments:

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"Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course."

"So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropping whelps, they'll be at your ankles one day, big as they are - not the whelps, the breasts. The whelps will be in your hair - no, not the shiny hair on your head, well, yes, that hair, but only as a manner of speech."

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[Solidsnape]

Otataral Toblakai, on 07 March 2012 - 07:11 PM, said:

Kallorshrugged. ‘If that would help. More directly, however, you seem to forget my... experience. For all that I seem to grate upon all of you, I have walkedthis land when the T’lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies ahundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entirecontinents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?’



‘Yes.You never learn, Kallor.’

One of my favourite passages in the books.

Nice.

[Toraneko]

"The harder the world, the fiercer the honour." - Dancer

"Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece." - Itkovian

"I am not yet done." - Itkovian

[Brujah]

I'm in the process of a first time The Crippled God read, and therefore:

Widdershins nodded. ‘Could be the whole conspiracy right there, then. The inner circle I was talking
about—’
‘The conniving cabal,’ said Deadsmell.
‘Aye—’
‘The secret sneaks.’
‘Just so.’
‘The shifty-eyed sentinels of truth—’
Throatslitter’s laugh pierced the night

I love this for some reason. Especially "shiffty-eyed sentinels of truth."
I also note that someone else quoted this already under a different sub-forum, but it still stands out for me.

[Defiance]

Karsa Orlong, bold with his claims, brazen in his arrogance, uttered but five words in reply: ‘I will kill you… once.'

[Tehol the Only]

My absolute favorite is "I've had enough of your JUSTICE" in TCG

and, of course:

"Greetings to Prince Brys from King Tehol the Only of Lether. Dearest brother, have you slept with her yet?"


but there are just too many awesome lines in these books

[Nocturnal]

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'We have been lovers a long time, Dayliss and I. You knew nothing, even as we laughed at your clumsy efforts to court her. Every day you would strut between us, filled with bold words, always challenging me, always seeking to belittle me in her eyes. But we laughed inside, Dayliss and I, and spent the nights in each other's arms. Karsa Orlong, it may be that you are the only one who will return to our village - indeed, I believe that you will make certain of it, so my life is as good as ended already, but I do not fear that. And when you return to the village, Warleader, you will make Dayliss your wife. But one truth shall remain with you until the end of your days, and that is: with Dayliss, it was not I who followed, but you. And there is nothing you can do to change that.'

Bairoth was way too smart for his own good. This was one of my favorite moments in the 4th book.

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[Otataral Toblakai]

Several from Return of the Crimson Guard.

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Total awareness, my friend, results in paralysis.

Src: Tayschern to Cowl

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

Src: Book of Forbidden Knowledge, Odwin Innist, condemned scholar

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When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge.

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[Otataral Toblakai]

Two by Antsy, from OST

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When you think everyone around you is mad, that's when you should start to suspect it's actually you.

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The truth is that the goal of existence is to kill you.

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[Dughan]

"It's that hurt we feel that keeps us going, Sergeant. And maybe we're not going anywhere, but at least we're not running away from anything."
Fiddler

"In a world full of pits and sinkholes, you dance the edges"
Ganoes Paran

Both of these are from gardens of the moon.

[Nocturnal]

Tehol and Bugg in Midnight Tides make for the greatest and most awkward comic-relief couple in the saga I've seen so far.

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"Well, where are all our weapons?"
"We don't have any weapons, master."
"None? Did we ever?"
"No. Some wooden spoons..."
"And are you adept with them?"
"Very."

Also, Shurq and her "Don't make me laugh, I'll cough up something." made me chuckle a few times.

[Kanese S's]

Somewhere in the books there's a quote that ends "A man without fear is a man who has forgotten the rules of life." I can't remember the lead up to it, though.