Some cliched literary moments and phrases

[Nikhar]

Okay, let's discuss some of the literary moments and phrases that you think are really cliched and you feel you'd throw up if you come across them again. :p

[Lokasenna]

I was talking with a friend the other day who is on a Romantic novel binge at the moment - Austen, Burney, Gaskell e.t.c. We had a bit of a laugh over the fact that there's always two eligible young men for the heroine to swoon over until - shock! horror! - the lively one turns out to be a bit of a bastard!

Don't get me wrong, I love the novels, but they are somewhat predictable!

[wokeem]

A standard cliche in cheap mystery or suspense novels would be

"...but little did she know."

[Lumiere]

A standard cliche in cheap mystery or suspense novels would be

"...but little did she know."

:puke:

[kelby_lake]

'I hate you/I love you.' Really annoying.

[kiki1982]

'I love you, but I have to leave you just because I love you, and don't think it doesn't hurt.'

:sick:

or

'I will leave you, if you want, but not of my own accord. Just because I love you.'

And this includes some of the most famous, and always we fall for it :rolleyes:

[Nikhar]

I wonder if it's origin is literary or not but I absolutely detest --> "last but not the least.."

[MANICHAEAN]

"I don't know how I'm ever going to repay you"

[Evaril]

"Oh, it's you. It's really you."

[kelby_lake]

Graphic sex scenes.

[MANICHAEAN]

Cigeratte smoke rising to the ceiling to indicate a sex scene was finished !!!

Remember Allan Bates in "Saturday Night & Sunday Morning?"

[Three Sparrows]

If you pick up a romance, the main character and first-mentioned marriage candidate almost always pair up at the end.:nopity:

[Gustavo L.]

"we're not so different, you and I" when said by a villain.

[dafydd manton]

"She looked deep in to his eyes....." Presumably in the hope of seeing the cornea, the iris, the anterior chamber, the aqueous chamber, the ciliary muscle, the retina and the sclera. Odd that she never does. Is this because women are portrayed as stupid in literature? Or merely that few optometrists write decent novels?

[antiprefix]

"She looked deep in to his eyes....." Presumably in the hope of seeing the cornea, the iris, the anterior chamber, the aqueous chamber, the ciliary muscle, the retina and the sclera. Odd that she never does. Is this because women are portrayed as stupid in literature? Or merely that few optometrists write decent novels?

Hahaha.

[Veva]

"She looked deep in to his eyes....."

This exact sentence. By the way, I just realised that I have always come across "SHE looked deep in to his eyes..." What do men seek with their eyes on a woman? ;)

[MANICHAEAN]

Depends on if their intentions are honourable or not!

[dafydd manton]

He felt he had reached a fork in the road. Then he decided......almost inevitably dishonourable!

[MANICHAEAN]

No negative virtue in self expression there dafydd!