Fave one liner from a book?

I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago

I could just die! Cpt Wentworth, Persuasion

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other wayin short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only

'Nawaz wakes gently, lifted through a gap in the way of things.'

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, by Jon McGregor

Can't remember which Antonia Forest book it was in, but I have used Rowan's dryly uttered, 'My grief would be controllable,' for many years now...

Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six; we were of that disposition.

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

From The Seagull

'Life must be represented not as it is, or as it ought to be; but as we see it in our dreams.'

I also utterly adore the already mentioned last line of I Capture The Castle.

Don't do what you can't undo until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

Robin Hobb, Farseer Triology

After a google, it's not 'doesn't its 'does not'

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One doesn't love breathing"
To Kill A Mockingbird

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing;?that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;?and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost;?Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,?I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that in which the reader is likely to see me.

The first line of Tristram Shandy. He starts as he means to go on

Can't remember it verbatim but the gist was basically this. "Childbirth is often viewed as a miracle, but its not. Once you are pregnant it's basically inevitable. Throughout pregnancy & birth we are caused unimaginable pain, stress & discomfort by this baby. The miracle is that after all this, we love them." From the birth house by ami McKay.

I love Mr Bennet

"You have delighted us long enough. Let some other young lady make an exhibition of herself"

I use it a lot.

The tiger's wife.Last sentence.
I had been taught long ago that there are some stories you keep to yourself.
Unforgettable book.

Did my heart love till now?
Forswear it sight. For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare.

"The long, lovely, blue days that lasted for ever, that still are. ..." Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

"He's come to take my soul, " she thought, "but when did I ever tell him he could have it?"

John Le Carre. Little Drummer Girl.

Oi, I love the questing vole too.

Often used in our house: "It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine." PG Wodehouse.

Not enough opportunities to use, as I rarely wish anyone dead - "And don't pass any open windows." Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving.

Austen again...
"You pierce my soul." Oh Captain Wentworth! (Swoon...)

"It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows."

Mr Pratchett, The Colour of Magic

?But, Lizzy, you look as if you did not enjoy it. You are not going to be missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn??
Mr Bennett, Pride and Predjudice (my excuse for a good gossip)

'He looked up; and she was instantly scarlet, as though she had been dipped in boiling water. Through the confusion of her darkened eyes and drumming ears some enormous bulk seemed to stoop over her. Then the mist cleared. His eyes were riveted upon the manuscript again, but he breathed as though he had been running.
So, thought Harriet, it has happened,'
Gaudy Night, Dorothy L Sayers
The moment Harriet realised she was in love with Lord Peter.

"No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away -- until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence."

Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett.

(loving the Gatsby ones - I'm currently reading it for an exam so have been analysing it to death, it's lovely to see it through fresh eyes again!)

All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.

Animal Farm.

"If she had not wanted me to love her, she should not have looked at me."

Graham Green, I think, though have never managed to find the book. Someone sent it to me years ago.

My absolute favourite, the last paragraph from Gatsby already been done so I get to do another:

"I was there, standing across your path and because I was there, you met me, without any reasonable cause, without having wanted to do so; from that moment, you could choose to come closer to me or to run away from me, but you could not prevent me existing in your consciousness" Simone de Beauvoir, The Blood of Others

Tartina if it's any consolation that would be a great ending!