Favorite quote from your main character

We probably all have favored things our characters have said. Here are my top pic from my novel Winter Blossoms.

"There's more to being a knight than- than hitting other men with a sword and knocking each other off horses," This was said by the MC female Cressida, to the MC male Joren, who has a leg injury that ended his time as a knight.

 

Reminds me of a quote:
Aodhan- "There's more to fighting than hitting people. Admittedly, not a lot more, given the goal of the enterprise, but you do need to think about it."

 

"I have a half-sister by my father, her mother was human, tell me Professor, does that make her more or less of a monster to you?"
This is from a story I had tucked away since I was 16, which was inspired by Vampire Hunter D and Underworld's theory.

 

given the goal of *the* enterprise

Also, 'enterprise' is perhaps a little fancy/technically specific for this. I don't know though.

 

I'm going to cheat and put a quote that includes my main, Sarah, but that is really a quote from more of a second tier character- Wesker.

WESKER: Maybe history will repeat itself.
SARAH: So what, you think I'm destined to save the world? Is that why I'm here?
WESKER: Like you're the chosen one? Bollocks. But I did think it would be very amusing.

EDIT: I feel I should clarify that would Wesker would find amusing is Sarah being involved in things (which he facilitated) and 'history repeating itself', and not that he was misleading Sarah for his amusement.

 

More of an internal monologue, but what the hell.
It is Graxis having a moment reflecting on his own near death
exp.

Turning away I study the knife still in my hand, pondering about the last man I killed with it a few moments. His blood blackening the blade from where it pierced his heart. I know he was just a soldier doing his duty and showing his loyalty to his faction. On the other side he was still a man, who probably had a family, friends, a life outside of his service to his people and the will of his commanding Officers. In a way it is the mirror opposite of the empty house with the small memorial to their dead child. On the other side they are one in the same. A loss to a family without any fault of their own, simply stripped away from them for a reason that is ill defined. Whether it be by the hand of another combatant, or by illness, it makes no difference as they both claim lives and tear families apart.

 

Marckus is kinda twisted.

“Welcome to the front line,” I down the coffee,” You of all people should know all about shitting on the ‘rules’ when it comes to getting the results you want.”

“So that’s it? That’s all you have to say?”

“Yep! Not much fun when you’re the one having to wait and wonder how you are gonna die. Frankly I enjoy watching you sweat and squirm.”

 

"The only thing humanity has that I can remotely say I am jealous of is a chance of dying peacefully. Vampires die one of two ways, they did themselves in, or someone else did."
Dragomir mentioning the negatives of undead immortality.

 

This is a mild spoiler... but it happens early on in Chapter 2 so, it should be fine.

"It might amuse you Princess to know that the Ancients once rode around in Long, Iron Serpents,"
"Ewww... how did they not get devoured," asks Kristol.
The Chaplin chuckles. "They were chariots, able to carry them long distances,"
"I hope we can have those again, some day," said Kristol with a smile.

(I am basing this off of memory of the scene, )

 

I wrote something last night that came out of the blue, and it wasn't something I realised I believed until the words were there.
"People need people."
This is something my MC says to another person, a child she's trying to protect - she isn't aware yet that she believes it too. There's a lot of other stuff in this section about her realising that she cannot live apart from society. It had previously been enough for her, but suddenly she misses it. That hits particularly close to home. It's something I'm trying to learn.

 

From a new WIP (I've taken a break from the volcano one):

"What do you mean? Of course badgers took it! They'll steal anything. They're nothing but big stripy weasels. A good old-fashioned viking raid, that'll sort them out."

 

Sometimes, i amaze myself....

 

Mine would have to be from Talking Toilet star of Talking Toilet.
Talking Toilet, for the most part, was developed on an idea I had of this toilet with the ability to talk who, wasn't evil, but was foul mouthed and grumpy.
Why?
Because he's a toilet, and he has no choice but to take people's shit.
So that's the metaphorical chip on Talking Toilet's shoulder.

Talking Toilet posses two special abilities.

• He's a toilet, that can talk.
• He has the ability to clean himself/his cubical in the blink of an eye, if he ever wants to impress anybody, which is almost never, unless an (attractive female); he, goes there, he's a pervert.

With his special powers, he probably can get a credit card, go online, order stuff, like STD tests and penicillin shots for himself if ever my favourite porn star ever becomes a guest star - 'It's really for an adult reader'.
He's unisex, because he's the public toilet of a convenience store in America - which is just needed for concept, since he's a magical toilet who's pluming though fantastic doesn't really allow for much movement, so it's him, in stuck in a cubical in a convenience store in America, and I'd like to say 7 Eleven, but, if for some reason I can't, just some convenience store.

Talking Toilet was born in a porcelain factory outside of Paris, France, but was shipped to America.
I decided to do that for two reasons;

Talking Toilet's Mother

Talking Toilet's mother is a talking shower head hanging in the warehouse of some Bathroom Appliance warehouse in France, but she's not plumed in, who, from her position in the warehouse, over looking everything, saw and fell in love with and adopted this poor sweet helpless little Talking Toilet baby she took under her wing until he was ordered, sold, made ready for dispatch and sent to America...
So his mother's and Talking Toilet are some of the few talking appliances Talking Toilet has, is Talking Toilet and his mother, this loving, caring, adorable, sweet, charming shower head; with a French accent, who's just charming nice and sweet, but she's not stupid, she's smart, and is always a good mother to her son/Talking Toilet, and, he might be grumpy at times to the world, but that's his mother, that's his kin, and he knows that, even though he's in America being all 100% American in spirit or whatever, but also having her as his mother.
They're both magical, so they can talk to each other despite being miles away, so that's fine.
..
And because Talking Toilet's rude!.. j/k .
He's 100 % American in the sense that that's where he's a toilet, that's where he lives, that's where he had his first memory of somebody, urinating on him, and he was technically born in France.
Favourite line from Talking Toilet.

Raj is causally using Talking Toilet to relief himself.

Talking Toilet (Angry)
What the fuck are you doing?!​

 

Talking Toilet, about a toilet, who can talk.

 

..
And because Talking Toilet's rude!.. j/k .
He's 100 % American in the sense that that's where he's a toilet, that's where he lives, that's where he had his first memory of somebody, urinating on him, and he was technically born in France.
Favourite line from Talking Toilet.


Raj is causally using Talking Toilet to relief himself.

Talking Toilet (Angry)
What the fuck are you doing?!

 

Oh dear.

 

One I thought of today:

A character with six sisters (aged thirty-three) is talking to her friend's daughter (aged fourteen), who has twelve sisters. She says that when she was a child, she never physically fought with her sisters, to which the kid replies,

"Violent scrapping is the jam on the bread that is sisterhood."

 

Weird. I always heard it was the peanut butter on the toasted English muffin that is brotherhood. But I guess that's just what they tell boys in sex ed classes.

(I am profoundly sorry for this post. )

 

Apparently not sorry enough to not post it.

 

"Nay, we do not need 'a plan'. We be needing an army, an archmage or three and a minor deity fer good measure."

 

One of the main characters in my currently active WIP, referring to how she first met and recruited one of the two protagonists:

"I found him in Camden Market dressed in a pair of shorts and an Icelandic flag. He was having what appeared to be an animated discussion with a starling."

 

The quote I will write is about a courtesan, one of my main characters in development:

"I only have two friends, my legs and the coin."
Scarlet
War of Wars

 

Must be a Barbra Streisand fan.

 

Can't say I've ever listened to any of her music - a strange coincidence perhaps ?

 

No, it's a CONSPIRACY!!