Post a Quote you've just Heard or Read

[Gelquie]

Kind of like the Post a Lyric to the Song You're Listening to, but for other media instead. Books, movies, plays; heard or read; you name it! If you hear or see a quote that you like, so long as it's NTWF-safe, post it here!

In this case, it may be more prudent to quote the work.


I'll start off!

"Let's not consort with them: To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy."
(Malcolm, Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 3)

[Liou]

Omw yes

Been wanting to quote this for months

But there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them - even if, in truth, their victims couldn't care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.

N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, 3)

[Kat]

There were things Thor did when something went wrong. The first thing he did was ask himself if what had happened was Loki's fault. Thor pondered. He did not believe that even Loki would have dared to steal his hammer. So he did the next thing he did when something went wrong, and he went to ask Loki for advice.

- Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology (Freya's Unusual Wedding)

[Thorn]

"We have a royal family because it's too much hassle to replace it with anything else."
-Camilla (The Windsors, season three episode three.)

[downrightdude]

"Oh great, why do you think they entered the contest?"

"They're girls and cousins, too!"

Sailor Moon S, Cloverway dub. (Can't remember ep number)

[Twillie]

I've been rewatching the web series "Gayle" again (if you've ever seen the video "Company is Coming," that's a clip from this series), and while there's probably plenty I could quote from it, this one in particular has been sticking in my mind x3

Somehow, likely due to damage to my frontal cortex by over-consumption of white chocolate chips, I forgot that the Kerrington Way street-wide open house is this William Howard Taft-ernoon!

[Stephanie (swordlilly)]

The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for the deepest fears) and inflict stigma is always worth challenging . . . But the metaphors cannot be distanced just by abstaining from them. They have to be exposed, criticized, belabored, used up.

--Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

[Allison]

I'm going to cheat a bit here... I didn't "just" read these, and I'm going to post a few, but they are all from the same book.

Like the pluck of a stringed instrument, the first edge of the sun broke loose and poured light over the world.

"That's why Anniera was strong, lad....The Throne Warden protects more than the High King's flesh. He protects his soul by reminding him at every turn what is good and noble and true in the world."

"...these children should know who they are. At all costs, they should remember who they are."

~Andrew Peterson, North! Or be Eaten - Book Two of the Wingfeather Saga

[Gelquie]

"Since you left us, you have been a stone rolling downhill. Now you must aim this remarkable momentum. It is past time for the balance to shift."

Keeper Artemus; Thief the Dark Project

[Kat]

"For all of your successes, it is only now, in your worst moment of defeat - when you came to the defense of one of your own, with no regard for your well-being - that you have truly shown yourselves to be a team."

- Professor Ozpin, After the Fall by E.C. Meyers

[Allison]

I have only one desire in these painful days, to see my work matter for the mending. I know I help invent things that destroy, but they are aimed at the darkness. And I hope that, when they have blown a hole in that darkness, the light pours in.

Emerson, Ember Rising by S.D. Smith

Finally, she saw a light ahead. It was only a little bit of light, and t was far, far ahead, But even a little bit of light meant the world to her in all that darkness.

Ember Rising by S.D. Smith

If that last quote doesn't describe the world right now with COVID and the vaccine....