What are your favourite lines from any novel?

viksorion

That it will not come again is what makes life so beautiful

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams


So long so long so long and thank you for all the fish

Chang Tikhak

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
- Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

LoneFighter

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes - Sherlock Holmes (The Hound of the Baskervilles)

anisojaru7981

It was the best of times it was the worst of times....Tale of two cities...Charles Dickens...

limteh

My favourite quote from Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

“I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.”

Patter

“Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.” ― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

Dark, but this is one that stuck with me from a brilliant series
Edit, and to make this post less depressing, i'll throw in this one:
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett

leesam3

""We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Pedro_P

Original Quote:
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«La envidia es la religión de los mediocres. Los reconforta, responde a las inquietudes que los roen por dentro y, en último término, les pudre el alma y les permite justificar su mezquindad y su codicia hasta creer que son virtudes y que las puertas del cielo sólo se abrirán para los infelices como ellos, que pasan por la vida sin dejar más huella que sus trapaceros intentos de hacer de menos a los demás y de excluir, y a ser posible destruir, a quienes, por el mero hecho de existir y de ser quienes son, ponen en evidencia su pobreza de espíritu, mente y redaños. Bienaventurado aquel al que ladran los cretinos, porque su alma nunca les pertenecerá.» - Carlos Ruiz Zafón , El Juego del Ángel
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Translation:
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«Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's  Game.

edward236

Every line from "The Godfather" - Mario Puzo.

tusharjain71288

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist