write down the sentence that you remembered clearly.

[jerria]

sometimes i find that you love to read a novel or poem or any other litterature books maybe it's just because of one sentence in this book.

[suitenoise314]

And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils

[nome1486]

Aslan is on the move!
(The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; C.S. Lewis)

[Edmond]

"Icy blasts of a Frozen beauty" "Eight plays by Moliere"
page 250

I remember this vividly.

[Arteum]

And sometimes you love to read a novel because of its every sentence.

[Melodylemming]

He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

[AbdoRinbo]

sometimes i find that you love to read a novel or poem or any other litterature books maybe it's just because of one sentence in this book.

'Under the thatched arbor of a restaurant on a riverbank, where Olivia had waited for me, our teeth began to move slowly, with equal rhythm, and our eyes stared into each other's with the intensity of serpents'--serpents concentrated in the ecstacy of swallowing each other in turn, as we were aware, in our turn, of being swallowed by the serpent that digests us all, assimilated ceaselessly in the process of ingestion and digestion, in the universeal cannibalism that leaves its imprint on every amorous relationship and erases the lines between our bodies and sopa de frijoles, huachinango a la vera cruzana, and enchiladas.'

Italo Calvino
Under the Jaguar Sun

[plea4peace]

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

I don't know why, but that just means a lot to me.
It's the last lines of the Catcher in the Rye, btw.

[bobbybittman]

...he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

Hemingway.

[gterpenkas]

"Was anyone hurt?"

"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court..."

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, Chapter 1, Du Cote De Chez Beaver, first two of the book.

[theMarsMonster]

cras, cras, semper cras...

tomorrow, tomorrow, always tomorrow.

that's what it all comes down to really :)

[_JadeRain_]

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XVIII "A Flood of Sunshine"

[IrishCanadian]

"Jacob Marley was dead to begin with, dead as a doornail."
(best first line to any novel ever) Dickens, Chrsitmas Carol

"That which stifles me, to-night, even as I write these lines; that which makes my heart hurt as though it were going to burst; that love of which, at last, I know the name ador--"
(best last line -okay, nearly the last line- of a novel ever) Mauriac, Viper's Tangle

[Petrarch's Love]

Strangely enough these were the first sentences that came to mind. I couldn't decide which to post so here are both:

"Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada."--Hemingway, "A Clean Well Lighted Place"

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness but still will keep
A bower quiet for us and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health and quiet breathing;
Therefore on every morrow are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy o'er-darkened ways
Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits."
--Keats, "Endymion"

[RobinHood3000]

"...and Darkness, and Decay, and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."


"Lay on, Macduff! And damned be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!' "

[Dickensian]

These really stick with me:
"My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring." - Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" also from this story: "The more it starts looking like Queer Street, the less I ask."

"He could have been better, and that made it worse." Andrew O'Hagan's "Our Fathers"

"If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."George Orwell's "1984"

"He who has not seen those tears in the eyes of his beloved, does not yet know to what a point, faint with shame and gratitude, a man may be happy on earth." Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons"

"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me." Elie Weisel's "Night" (Best last two sentences I've ever read in a book thus far)

"'For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning.'" Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities"

"Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy." William Golding's "Lord of the Flies"

"And so it goes with God." Yann Martel's "Life of Pi"

[Pensive]

I was in love with her, so deeply in love that I didn’t care if she was sick - Landon in A Walk To Remember (I completed this novel yesterday and I will never forget these lines, so beautiful these are)

Nelly, I am Heathcliff. He's always, always in my mind, not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. So don't talk of our separation again. it is inpracticable. - Catherine from Wuthering Heights.

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 era of cruelty, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to the Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - Charles Dickens in A Tale Of Two Cities (hehe, I have forgotten a few lines. I will be glad if someone can correct me)]

Wit beyond measure of man's greatest treasure - Luna Lovegood from HP series.

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold and leaves of gold there grew. Galaderiel's lament from LOTR.

[smilingtearz]

1)All the world's a stage..(and the rest of that speech) .. Jacques, As you like it , Shakespeare.
2) i) I am not what I am-- Iago(1.1), Othello
ii) For she had eyes and Chose me-- Othello
Loved these lines

3) Scarlett: Sir, you are no gentleman.
Rhett Butler: And you, Miss, are no lady. {gone with the Wind} and to believe they loved each other by the end of it.. this is my fav. book!

[Virgil]

What a great idea for a thread. I never saw this before. I'm sure I'm going to come to this frequently now. Here's one that's been on my mind since we analyzed in the poem of the week thread.

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hand and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.

-William Butler yeats, from "Sailing To Byzantium"

[RobinHood3000]

Now that reminds me of a song...

ISTANBUL was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been long gone, old Constantinople...

[Transmogrified]

whose the song by?

[RobinHood3000]

I prefer the They Might Be Giants version, but the original's by the Four Lads.

[Riesa]

"If I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?"

From The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane

[Transmogrified]

the four Lads are four Old men now! they should change their name or something, it was more than 50 years or so they started

[Pensive]

Hey Trans, Your avatar was my desktop's background a few days ago....I mean the same picture!

[Transmogrified]

does that mean you like the picture?

[Virgil]

"If I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned--if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?"

From The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane
Oh, I love that quote too. What a great short story. Ever read "The Blue Hotel" by Crane?

[Themis]

"The story starts here."

- "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher" (The city of dreaming books) by Walter Moers

[Unspar]

"In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."

"Indian Camp" by Hemingway.

[Pensive]

does that mean you like the picture?

Yuppers, I did like the picture. :D

[blp]

'"But is an advertising man a gentleman?"
"Well he is certainly very rich and has a magnificent house in Chiswick."'

- George Gissing, New Grub Street

'The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tran-
quil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the
earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky -- seemed
to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.'

- Conrad Heart of Darkness

[zzzzort]

Don't know about people's opinion of the Bible as literature, but:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

John 1:1

[karo]

The pain of an unanswered question would spoil the morning, perhaps the entire day.

From 'the sacred and profane love machine' by Iris Murdoch

[Niamh]

framed in the doorway stood a man resembling an old unberella forgotten at a picnic- Murder at the abbey theatre by Douglas and Hogan

[AdoreroDio]

"heaven looks a lot like the mall."

-from a book by that name

[karo]

He married her to save himself from his peculiarities.

Iris Murdoch - the sacred an profane love machine

[Nico87]

He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother

Obvious which book it's from!

[StayGolden]

"There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul."

- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

[Gadget Girl]

"Clock-hands joined palms in respectful greeting as I came. Soothsayers had prophesied me, newspapers celebrated my arrival, politicos ratified my authenticity."

From "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie.

[bazarov]

Why would world care for me when I don't care for him? - Victor Hugo; The Hunchback of Notre Dame

If there is no God, then everything else is permitted. - Fyodor Dostoevsky; The Brothers Karamazov

[Aiculík]

The beginning the poem Barbara by Jacques Prevert:

Remember Barbara
It rained without cease on Brest that day
And you walked smiling
Radiant joyful streaming
In the rain.

I think I'll never forget it, till the end of my life. :)

[alexsears]

give it back thats mine.:D

harry potter and the sorerers stone,letter exeptiance part

[Simao]

I remember some line I read in Don Quixote but I can't remember who said it
and bare with me the weak translation because I read it in Arabic and this is the best my translation skill came with: " The most free hearts are the most hearts to be enslaved by the power of love". It stuck in my mind and I think it is a really good quote.

[blackbird_9]

Call me Ishmael.

[andave_ya]

"At last I understand why we have waited! This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away!"
"Do not scorn the pity that is the gift of a gently heart, Eowyn!"
"Wish me joy, my liege-lord and healer!"
"I have wished you joy since first I saw you."
"Et Earello Endorenna utulien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta!"

Lord of the Rings, one and all!

[Geoff Shipley]

'But how will you die when your time comes, Narcissus, since you have no mother?'

[Pretty^Athens]

How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? life moves fast. it rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. (eleven minutes-paulo quilho)

[slipperyyoke]

"A kissed mouth loses no savour, but is renewed like the moon." (The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio). Although not a singular sentence, I'll always remember my sig as well. Cheers.

[byquist]

"Nothing human offends me except unkindness and violence." -- Hannah Jelks in T. Williams' "Night of the Iguana."

[Pensive]

Learn to name it, and you can master it.

The Wizard of Earthsea

[ivette]

''Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.''

Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus

[byquist]

"There must be better songs to sing than this." Rita in "Educating Rita."

[NickAdams]

"... Whose charity kept me dying ..."

Samuel Beckett: Molloy

[strumphyy]

<<April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.>>
<<I will show you fear in a handful of dust.>>
<<I was neither living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence>>
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
<<Samoa, one day, someday!>> I can't remember the book. I read it years ago and I had borrowed it from the library.I might have even gotten the quote all wrong..But for me, it suggests hope and I say it every time I need a little encouragement..

Remember Barbara
It rained without cease on Brest that day
And you walked smiling
Radiant joyful streaming
In the rain.

Aiculík these are really beautiful lines you picked

[Zeniyama]

Estragon: Let's hang ourselves immediately!
Vladimir:From a bough? (They go towards the tree.) I wouldn't trust it.

(Technically more than one sentence, but these are the lines I remember best.)

[PrimordialBeast]

The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew

Jack London

[DanielBenoit]

"A screaming comes across the sky." -Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

"Forlorn!- The word is like a bell!" - Keats, Ode to a Nightingale

"That undiscovered country from whose bourne
No traveler returns, puzzles the will." - Shakespeare, Hamlet

[hazelk]

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

[ilianalesoi]

''These were her realities. All else had vanished!''

''Their laws were no law for her mind.''

-The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Oh and of course;

''The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.''

-Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening, Robert Frost

I can NOT end this without a quote from the precious Don Quixote;

''Those who were something are now nothing, and those who were nothing are now something.''