Lines that get you.

"I'm still alive, but I'm barely breathing
Just praying to a God that I don't belive in
'Cuz I've got time while she's got freedom
'Cuz when a heart breaks, no it don't break even

Her best days are some of my worst
She finally found a man thats gonna put her first
While I'm wide awake, she's no trouble sleeping
'Cuz when a heart breaks no it don't break even

What am I supposed to do, when the best part of me was always you?
And, what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up that you're ok?
I'm falling to pieces
Yeah
I'm falling to pieces"

From the song "Breakeven" by The Script. The whole song really gets to me, this is just the beginning and the chorus.

"Life on the moon
Could it be any stranger?
Life on the moon
Wouldn't feel the far away
The life that I knew, is through
and I'm gonna need you more than ever
I'm alone in this crowed room
It's like life on the moon"

This is the chorus to the song "Life on the Moon" by David Cook. Again the whole song gets to me, especially the last two lines of the chorus.

 

I'm currently playing Dragon Age: Origins (fantastic game btw) and one of the NPCs in my party is a very witty dwarf. At one point during a quest he utters a line that just cracks me up every time I hear it:

"Well shave my back and call me an elf!"

 

So many!

It's hard to choose. From The dark night of the soul- Loreena McKennitt (St John of the Cross translation)

And by the fortress walls
the wind would brush his hair against his brow
And with its smoothest hand
caressed my every sense it would allow

 

This from one of my favorite songs by Matthew Good, Empty's Theme Park, off his album Vancouver:

I live just around here
I sleep just around here
I wake up every day
Where my feet hit the floor in exactly the same place

Tell me will I love?
Tell me will it be enough?
Or tell me will I stay
With my feet in exactly the same place?

Hold me like you'd never let me go
Bear it like you'd never let it show
Shine a light and so never let me go


And my favorite line from the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton:

"You think the Soc's have it made. The rich kids, the west-side Soc. Well let me tell you something and it came come as a surprise to you, but things are rough all over."

Really rings true. Things sure are rough all over.

 

Here is a quote from the movie Casino that I find very entertaining, Joe Pecsi as Nicky Santoro (depicting Tony "The Ant" Spilotro) explaining to a banker exactly what it is he does:

"I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning I'll get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and... walk in and see and, uh... if you don't have my money for me, I'll... crack your f**k*n' head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time that I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what? I'll split your ****in' head open again. 'Cause I'm f**k*n' stupid. I don't give a f**k about jail. That's my business. That's what I do"

 

Well, this might be way off but the stand out line for me, sends a shiver down my spine and terrifies me every time (more the idea and notions and all the behind stuff to the unexplainable), is during 'Mothman' prophecies (yes thats right). He picks up the phone and his testing 'Ingrid Cold'.

"What's in my hand?"
"Chapstick."

The way it's said, the build up. That line had to be the most bone chilling line I've ever heard.

Alternatively from 'The Man From Earth."

Art: What you're saying, it offends common sense.
John Oldman: So does Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, that's the way nature works.

And also:

Dan: The objective measure of a clock, is another clock.

 

"God I want to dream again"

-from Fireflight's song Unbreakable.

 

My favorite quote of all time is the one in my sig.

"Not all who wander are lost."
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Ring

It just kind of inspires a sense of exploration and adventure in me. After reading this I just feel like going off on some great adventure.

 

^Yes!

"For either way you choose / he has to win" from the climax of Phantom of the Opera. I love the two ways it's sung simultaneously by the villain and hero - the hero defeated and in mental agony, the villain in villainous triumph, knowing he holds every card. . . . Gives me shivers, as do most of the lines in that song. Ey luvz itt.

 

I was re-reading one of my favorite poems--The Visitor by Mary Oliver, and the last few words always strike me in the solar plexus. I searched for this thread just to post it, lol:

And a writer whose works I love--Deb Caletti--just has this wonderful way with characterization. Here's one small bit from The Fortunes of Indigo Skye:

 

Oh I definately agree with that.

The line right after that of "Pitiful creature of darkness, what kind of life have you known? God give me courage to show you, you are not alone." always hits me. It shows such a shift from her despair and hate to this suddenly gentle, tender side that sees how he's been shaped by his life, and even though she doesn't want to stay there she does want to help him.

Then after that where the phantom is singing with the music box monkey and she comes in and he sings "Christine I love you." The inflection he places on it and the complete raw desperate emotion behind his words paired with the music makes me almost sad that she still leaves. It shows such a different side of him, one without all the evil infront of it. It always makes me shiver too.

 

Okay, so, I have a few.

The first one is from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Dumbledore says:

"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love."

The second one is from The Devil's Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen. It's towards the end, when the girls are being chosen to go to the gas chambers.

Rivka gave Hannah a quick hug. "Who will remember for you now?" she whispered.

Hannah said nothing. The memories of Lublin and the shtetl and the camp itself suddenly seemed like the dreams. She had lived, or would live in the future- she, or someone with whom she shared memories. But Rivka had only now.

Without thinking through the why of it, Hannah snatched the kerchief off Rivka's head. "Run!" she whispered. "Run to the midden, run to the barracks, run to the kitchen. The guard is new. He won't know the difference. One Jew is the same as another to him. Run, for your life, Rivka. Run for your future. Run. Run. Run. And remember."

Finally, the third is from Spy Kids 2, The Island of Lost Dreams.

"Have you ever thought that God never leaves Heaven because he lives in fear of what he created?"

 

^ Wow, those are amazing.

One of my favorite's is my twin's signature, from "It's Kind Of A Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini: "You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live."

 

I second what she said

(obviously since that is my signature and I am her twin )

 

"Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane..."

Red. Shawshank Redemption.

 

Another one is my signature, and especially whatever Stephen Colbert (and Jon Stewart too, usually) says:

"It's about drama. It's about winning a battle. It's two gladiators in one ring. One can choose the Sword of Truth, but the other one can choose the AK47 of Bulls***. I'm going with the AK!" ~Stephen Colbert


Stephen plays this ridiculous pundit character (Stephen describes the character as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed high-status idiot") on his show, The Colbert Report (pronounced Col-bear Re-pore, the French way without the T's). Everything Stewart and Colbert say is an exact mirror of what politicians nowadays are saying, except when those two bring it to light, it sounds even stupider and more hilarious. You'd have to watch to understand, but it's FANTASTIC.

 

From The Lovely Bones;
"When my mother came to my room I realized that all of this time I had been waiting for her. I have been waiting so long and I was afraid that she wouldn't come. Nobody notices when we leave, I mean the moment when we really choose to go. At best they might feel the whisper or the wave of a whisper undulating down."

 

The whole song "Silver" by David Cook is very emotional and hard hitting for me, bu the chorus especially as it sums up the entire meaning of the song and really drives it into you. It always hits me and makes me really feel what he's saying.

"So take this small confession as my price to pay
I've never been the kind to let go
But, before you up and walk away
I'm miserable without you know
This silver leaves me longing for gold
Second place has never carried me home
Second place has never carried me home"

 

From A Night At The Opera:

"I saw Mrs. Claypool first. Of course, her mother really saw her first but there's no need to bring the Civil War into this."

 

It's not really a line, but something that always gets me is the scream in the first 4 seconds of "without god" a song by Katatonia... It's like.. the frustration and sadness reach such an intense moment of despair that there aren't even words left to describe the overwhelming sense of darkness that falls over him.

It gets me.. every time.

 

I know it's not a line, but i love this whole piece.

One of my favourite songs, Nevermore's, Sentient 6
Brings out the saddist in me.

I am sentient number six, I stand in line
I am the prototype of a benign convenience for mankind
Superior is digital, human flesh so trivial
I hate that I can’t see the one that made me

I am the new awakening of different eyes
My children you are my army
They are what we can never see and still despise
And their sky cries Mary

Trained I see imperfection in your race
Lying in wait, blind I suffer knowing I’ll never reach your heaven

Why is this control, behavior based and reactive
Adapting to every new environment?
Rewarded when I replicate, isolate and mutate
To assimilate a fragmented plea for ego

Trained I see imperfection in your race
Lying in wait, blind I suffer knowing I’ll never reach your heaven
It’s unattainable, please teach me how to dream
I long to be more than a machine

backwards
(Seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven
I am the bringer of the end, fear me
I am the beast that is technology.)

Sequence activate, trip the hammer to eradicate, I must eliminate
I will spread swift justice on their land
Termination imminent, cleanse the parasite insects, the heathens
I am the bringer of the end of time for man
I am not here, I am not far away
I am not here, I will eradicate mankind into the nothingness from whence they came

Enslaved to follow and learn defeat
To run the barrels and chase the dream

 

Nevermore... speedy I love you!!!

 

I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop
Marilyn Monroe in the movie Some like it hot.
Sometimes this describes best how I feel.

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.
Tiger’s Bride – Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter

I feel that my love for you has more density in this world, than I do.
The time traveler’s wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Introverted to the point of extinction.
Burning your boats by Angela Carter – A very, very great lady and her son at home

 

Beatles lyrics. Every song just gets me.

Example: One particular line in Taxman has this bite to it that I just love: "And my advice for those who die/glue the pennies on your eyes". If you know what that song is about, that line is PERFECT.

 

"Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us.
Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan.
But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum."

-Collected letters of the smith-in-exile

- Thief: The Dark Project

'nother one:

"...And the manfools piled rock on rocks and raised a treesie roof,
hammers saws tear the skin of goodsie wood...
...and laughs at the Woodsie Lord.
...And when learns the Lord of this, He sends His beastesses to the manfools...
...who attacks and hammers saws their useless fleshes, and build him a house of they rotting skins."

-Unattributed Trickster song

- Thief: The Dark Project

This series is truly a veritable goldmine of top-notch atmosphere, story, and stealth-steampunk gameplay.