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Fave one liner from a book?

360 replies

judgejudyandexecutioner · 02/05/2013 15:45

"It's lipless mouth quivered and slathered"
War of the Worlds - H G Wells
Grin

OP posts:
OneHolyCow · 02/05/2013 17:28

?He is afforded no insights, no illuminations, no great wisdoms, but he can immediately see why the ladies dig him. He is not a toned, square-jawed lover boy or cummerbunded ladies? man but there?s a pull, even in his booze-blasted face, a magnetic drag that has something to do with the pockets of compassion that form at the corners of his eyes when he smiles, a mischievous arch to his eyebrows and the little hymen-popping dimples in his cheeks when he laughs. Look! There they are now!?
? The Death of Bunny Munro, Nick Cave

gulp..

FruOla · 02/05/2013 17:22

"She heard a knocking, and then a dog barking. Her dream left her, skittering behind a closed door. It had been a good dream, warm and close, and she minded. She fought the waking. It was dark in the small bedroom, with no light yet behind the shades. She reached for the lamp, fumbled her way up the brass, and she was thinking, What? What? "

Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife.

(Sorry, it's slightly more than one line)

flootshoot · 02/05/2013 17:15

'You are the dead' 1984, George Orwell. Literally the only thing I've ever read that made me jump.

secretscwirrels · 02/05/2013 16:52

It's a title.
Started Early Took My Dog.
Sticks in my mind for no reason.

YouDontWinFriendsWithSalad · 02/05/2013 16:50

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

confusteling · 02/05/2013 16:36

"People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back."

Shug, The Color Purple. Love her and wish that she was a genuine person!

LadyBeagleEyes · 02/05/2013 16:33

'Hey Boo'
Scout meeting Boo Radley for the first time in my favourite book ever, To Kill a Mockingbird.

ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmmmmmmmmm · 02/05/2013 16:28

"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."

Correction, the mind discards chunks of text as you get older.... Blush

ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmmmmmmmmm · 02/05/2013 16:26

I was in bed with my catamite when the Archbishop called.....

Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess.

MNHQ
YoniMeKateMumsnet · 02/05/2013 15:48

"...for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending."

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

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