Favorite quote from your main character

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  1. james82

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    "She was my sickness, and I was her antibiotics."
     
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    Er... ummm... I don't get it.
     
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    "A needle is just like a sword, Tom. Only small and much more useful."
    Doctor Jeuhne
     
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    "A rare flower such as love won't just bloom of its own accord from nothing. It needs the right care and conditions to flourish and grow. Roots cannot take hold in dead earth and that is what I am. Dead earth."

    I always worry though cause whenever I write something I think is good, I wonder if someone else has said it before me and I've just forgotten that it was their words and not mine!
     
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    From something I wrote :

    "I am not delusional and he's not my hidden lover either! So stop trying to sneak in wind blades mother!"

    "I confirm the second claim and approve of the third, though I'm not sure about the first yet."
     
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    From when my main character has a chance encounter with the woman he is to fall in love with:

    To me there existed no greater comparison. Eureka-Eureka-Eureka. Definition? To cry of joy or satisfaction when one discovers something new. I had the strangest feeling that she knew what it meant.
     
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    My main character Leslie talking to one of my vampire characters- whose name is Dagger, when it starts to rain and the other vampire character,whose name is Zack, runs to his car. "Don't tell me, vampires are allergic to water."

    Or

    When my main vampire character Dagger was asked to find a hotel. "Did you find a hotel then?" "No, I found us a bridge to sleep under. Of course I found one ya, dumb a**."
     
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    I rather like that, as my antagonist dies by his brother's hand, he recognises him for the first time since they were separated at the beginning of the book, and utters his name warmly with his last breath.
     
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    Another one I found, is my favorite of all time from my character Zack, when people are skeptical about him defusing explosives or bombs, or if they thing he's going too slow:

    "Bomb defusing is very difficult. One wrong snip and Boom! We're blow to smithereens!"
     
  10. Link the Writer

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    They both serve people, but when the former gets angry, whole kingdoms can get taken over. The latter...um...don't really lead huge armies to take over vast swaths of territories when they get angry. *hopes he didn't sound offensive*

    Here's a quote from a MC I hope to give a story in the future: "Elsa, ideas are just tools that people use to further their own gain, either for good or ill."
     
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    GingerCoffee As Link the Writer said , They both serve people. But when king gets angry , whole kingdoms fear him on the other hand the latter can't do much if gets angry. the character who is saying this is actually a bit rude in my story .
     
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    I read from somewhere that in some lore, vampires are actually allergic to running/moving water. So basically, they'd be ok in a bath tub, but rivers and rain, not so much.

    So maybe Zack was right.
     
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    My MC travels to a limbo-like place called Between. There he meets various characters, the good ones acting as guides and guardians to the lost souls. Later he meets Death and, after a brief discussion, asks him what Deaths purpose here is:

    'I am neither Guardian, nor Guide. I am the Path'

    This later becomes the MC's saying
     
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    I don't think this quote needs context. lol.

    "Just because I am not a villain doesn't make me a hero."
     
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    "Words are blades, if you wield them carelessly, you might stab yourself"
     
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    "I've suddenly found that gods and kings matter little when the people are hungry and the world is collapsing."

    "I'd say that's when we matter the most! We are the only way to keep it all together!"

    "And that opinion is probably why the people are hungry and the world is collapsing, my liege."
     
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    If you want my feedback as a reader, it doesn't work. It's the "for the people" part. Whores mostly serve men and I don't see Kings as serving anyone.

    But feel free to ignore the feedback, given it's your favorite line and all.
     
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    I'm not posting my favourites/best, but here's one I like:


    Sometimes your love is unwanted. That’s just the ugly truth. It isn’t wanted, not even by you. But it’s there, despite your hate for it; despite wanting to get rid of it. That’s the thing about love, you know? It’s not always something you can choose or control. It just happens. It just happens and it’s not always a good thing, despite what all the romantic books and movies want us to believe. It’s like a cancer growing deep inside; a tumor spreading to every part of your body and making you feel sicker and sicker, and the only possible cure is for that person to love you back. But they don’t, and they won’t, and soon you get too sick to live.
     
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    "Friends leave, so we will be happy to meet them when they return!" -- the dragon Pauff
     
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    I guess they both fuck people for money. ;) A bit of a cruder take. But I too have a moral conflict with being critical of the line due to how fond the writer is for it.
     
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    Well i am all in for taking feedback from you guys , its my favorite line that doesn't make it immune of critique . But i do think that the time and conditions of kings in my story is not exactly the same as we have come to associate a king with .

    In my story kings are to serve people due to the religious beliefs , and due to the temple saints forcing it on them , They are kings but in my story ,Temple and Religion has more power and so kings are their to just get all the blame if some things gone wrong ( in other words to get screwed just like Whores ) but the guy who is quoting the said line is telling the prince to be the rebel , one who does not bow to false beliefs , God made him price ( a king to be ) for a reason , so he is telling that if a king gets angry and broke out for these chains tied to them, then he can be unstoppable , in other words he wants the prince to act against the said saints .

    and even in reality i don't think kings are there to rule like tyrants , they have to make so many hard decisions and sacrifices for their people . ( Talking about those who accept this duty ) .
     
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    Late revelation from a SF-setting :

    "Do you know why we called that substance Luci? It comes from Lucifer, a divine creature who fell after rebelling against God. Fer, an ancient word for iron. The Luci-Fer, the metal whom made the blessed beings fall from Heaven. Do you understand the feelings of who named that abomination when it killed all our history and civilization in mere seconds?"
     
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    "Did you know these guys pump in safe drinking water just to shit in?"
     
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    It's not cheating if you pull out.
     
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    "Another blockage on the main drill, set charge and blow? Heh Just like a whore house"
     
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