What is your favorite line in literature?

[Rick Gualtieri]

For me it's always been: "The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed." from Stephen King's The Gunslinger. Probably the best opening line ever in a novel, IMHO.

[deckard]

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

Anita

Yea! When do I get my gold star?

Deckard

[nogdog~6op6ou]

Hi,

From Dirk Gently's Detective Agency:

A wonderful book, that along with The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul tends to be wrongly overshadowed by hist "Hitchhiker" books (IMHO).

[Jeroen Steenbeeke]

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't"
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[sandrasstories]

My favourite lines (admittedly) comes from The Lord of the Rings. I love Tolkien's writing. Here are a few of my favourites:

"And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her."

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

“But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.”

Also,

She spoke to the King, hoping he would forbid his son to go, but he said: "Well, dear, it's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get into a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them."

-      Eva Ibbotson, "Secret of Platform 13"