Mrs Danvers - yes, I'd have loved that as an angst-filled teen!

Purplemonkey - am I alowed a childish snigger at the word "organ" ?

Actually I'd like to add Sarte's "Hell is other people."

Sometimes it's just, well, true...

"the heart is an organ of fire"
from the english patient

Great idea Yoho,

'Le vrai paradis c'est le paradis qu'on a perdu' Roughly translated to ' The only true paradise is a paradise we have lost' from Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

Cue much navel-gazing in my younger self

"What's wanted is a man with a whip"

Teen me sniggered... it has never left my memory

Posting on the thread about lines of fiction that give you chills made me think of one I always used to adore, from War of the Worlds.

"Dim and wonderful is the vision I have conjured up in my mind of life spreading slowly from this little seed-bed of the solar system, throughout the inanimate vastness of sidereal space."

I read it as a teen, and for some reason it always seemed very deep and 'important' - most satisfying (and I had to look up sidereal!!)

Have quite impressed myself actually, as I can still remember it exactly.

What lines make you sigh happily?