Favorite line you've written

goldhorse · Mar 10, 2012

"You know, telling someone they look tired is just a nice way of saying they look like shit."

Brandon Locke · Mar 10, 2012

“If we are the dreams of God, what becomes of existence if He should awaken?” Excerpt from The Books of Chaos

angeliz2k · Mar 12, 2012

In context, it isn't funny, it's angry:

“I think it’s rather brazen of you, sir, to stride around town like nothing happened.”
“I’ll endeavor to stride around town with more gravity in the future. If you’ll excuse me.”

Pikabuddy · Mar 14, 2012

"An' then I said, 'You shall live no longer, foul dragon!' An' I stabbed my sword through his...err..."
The captain put his fingers on his temples, straining to remember the rest of his story.
...
He took his fingers away, his face brightening. "Tail! I stabbed it through its tail, which killed it right then an' there," he laughed.

"Azreth, Arzeth, Bazarth, does it matter? You may have the ownership of the Crusader, but I'M still the captain."

-Captain Ray, obviously drunk

I just loved writing how the stubborn captain acts in the scene from where the quotes come from.

ClimbingMountains · Mar 15, 2012

What can I do to live life, if life doesn't give a fuck if I live? Life clutches, life lifts, life slams, life drags, life kicks, life . . . life washed it's hand and walked away.

ccarver30 · Mar 15, 2012

What a shameless woman she had been taking the virginity of a superhuman right on her desk.

This is from an unfinished sci-fi.

soapdish · Mar 15, 2012

From today. I think this says everything in very few words. Or at least it does to me. :tongue

I may elaborate on it in another sentence or two. But for now I just like it simple.

Inside it smelled like...baby.

PoppysInARow · Mar 17, 2012

This amuses me more than it probably should:

Tom hears voices in his head, written in italics.

“I’m sorry,” I say. “The voice just won’t shut up.”

“The voice?” Dr. Laser says, her eyes stretching wide. “Tom, do you hear voices?”

“YOU LITTLE SHIT, NOW WE’RE FUCKED!”

Kari Charna · Mar 18, 2012

Here is some quotes I like from my work. It's a kind of sad story, but that will hopefully change

"Am I dead if my life is gone?"

"The cold didn't bother me anymore, 'Cause I was just as cold inside."

"The sun rose, here in my sorrow, and I discovered that the world was still the same as it had been before."

"He turned around and looked me in the eyes 'There are people who has only told truth their entire lives, but at the same time lied like no other.'"

"'Sometimes it's the very simple things, which are hardest to understand' he said with laughter in his eyes"

jdwhitelaw · Mar 18, 2012

Something I quite enjoyed doing as part of a set play I quite like from a WIP.

"How utterly innapropriate it would be to spend one's last moments Google one's own name. Thought Marv as he pressed on the keys. The door swung open behind him as the crackle of gunfire drifted through the air."

silverp · Mar 18, 2012

This is so simple and funny - my favorite!

TrishD said:
Nick was indestructible. I was pretty sure if the Earth was decimated by a nuclear holocaust, the only things that would survive would be cockroaches, Twinkies and Nick Murphy.

The simple quotes are the best. One of my favorite quotes from a book is still from The Outsiders - "Stay Gold, Ponyboy." from Johnny when he died.
Make it simple you can crush a heart or make someone laugh just like you did me.

julzperri · Mar 18, 2012

PoppysInARow said:
This amuses me more than it probably should:

Tom hears voices in his head, written in italics.

Hahahahahahah I love this

woodtop255 · Mar 19, 2012

The lines are great! Started reading the thread and then realized there were almost 3,000 replies. Might take me a couple of days to read through them all, lol. I'll have to look over my WIP and pick out a few to share.

Guardian · Mar 19, 2012

Snippet:

"So what do you think, little one? Should we eat him or should we let him live this time?"

"Cannibalism is wrong, Mr. Wilson."

"Bah! That's not what you said yesterday."

authorilinca · Mar 19, 2012

From a free MG read of mine, Nahtaia: A Faery's Tale:
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"You charmed a minotaur?" he croaked, nearly choking on the words.
Nahtaia paused and narrowed her eyes. "What exactly am I here for?" she asked, biting her nail.

PoppysInARow · Mar 23, 2012

I abuse this thread. Horribly. Cart me to jail.

Tom doesn't like being woken up in the middle of the night:

“What?” I cry, putting my face in my hands. “Fuck, Donnie, do you know what I was dreaming about?”

“Hot orgies with dozens of Sarah clones?”

“So why’d you wake me?”

goldhorse · Mar 23, 2012

*slaps on the cuffs*

One of my readers loved this one:

"How did one mourn the passing of a log?"

JayMan · Mar 26, 2012

Just wrote the following:

The first exhibit they visited in this two-story museum was the kitchen, where dirty dishes littered the sink and a leaking carton of spoiled, gooey milk sat on the counter in a puddle of its own curdling excrement.

MGraybosch · Mar 29, 2012

I have a certain affection for this exchange, which comes from chapter 6 of my upcoming novel, Without Bloodshed.

Thistlewood hung up, and studied Naomi until she had to fight the urge to draw her cardigan tight around herself. “Hungry, Ms. Bradleigh?”

“Lunch would be pleasant, Inspector. I would also like to speak to my attorney.”

“Why do you keep mentioning your attorney? Do you have something to hide?”

“From you, sir, I have everything to hide.”

JayMan · Apr 13, 2012

Wrote this today. Character 1's life has just been saved by character 2:

David unclenched his fist. He nodded at the one who had been shot in the back and finished off at close range. “You didn’t have to kill him. He was running, begging, scared, you sick fuck.”

“First of all, you’re welcome.” Henderson removed from his mouth the blade of grass he was chewing on and eyed David with total apathy. “Second, you got any other complaints? I’d love to know. Really, honest critique is how I get better at my job.”

Shirokirie · Apr 13, 2012

"Women love me!" Asagio shot Rollond a beaming smile that light up the dance floor. "'Cause I'm a cute kitten.~"

slcboston · Apr 13, 2012

I expected a commonality, a camaraderie in the communion of the artificial with the whole. There was none. For them the artificial occupied a part of the totality of the whole, whereas my entire totality was wholly artificial.

slcboston · Apr 14, 2012

Better to be haunted by the dead than the living. The dead are easily dealt with; the living tend to keep coming back.

Rhea · Apr 14, 2012

This is from my current WIP: Witches, especially failed ones, shouldn't take up sword-fighting.

Psychotic.Pink · Apr 15, 2012

It turned out I was also in a closet.

At least there weren’t any dead bodies.

Favorite line you've written

Oooh look at the pretty pony!

never mind the shorty

Learning more every day

Nicole Castro

writing

Gone Drinkin'

Caffeine & trying not to scream.

Heather Topham Wood

just the worst honestly

Here we go again

Oooh look at the pretty pony!

Like Burt Reynolds in Gator

Lunch Break Novelist

Like Burt Reynolds in Gator

*Leers at you awkwardly*

Pasture-ized

Pasture-ized

Las brujas son sabias

Leers at you awkwardly