Day Seventeen

Day Seventeen – Favourite quote from your favourite book

This is a bit of a stinker, which favourite book does it mean?, my absolute favourite book? which is the answer to the very last question, my favourite classic?, my favourite book by my favourite writer??? all of them .. none of them ... or am I getting too technical. I don't suppose it matters.

This is the one question which may take me some time to answer as I have to rootle about finding the books and looking up the quotes.

Pride & Prejudice is an easy one to start with ... I could pick hundreds of quotes but the one's that I like best all have a sense of the ridiculous about them ...

"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."

"I like her appearance," said Elizabeth, struck with other ideas. "She looks sickly and cross. Yes, she will do for him very well. She will make him a very proper wife."

"Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done."

Quotes from Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere ...

'Lovely fresh dreams. First class nightmares. We got 'em. Get yer lovely nightmares here.'

'Sir. Might I with due respect remind you that Mister Vandemar and myself burned down the City of Troy? We brought a Black Plague to Flanders. We have assassinated a dozen kings, five popes, half a hundred heroes and two accredited gods. Our last commission before this was the torturing to death of an entire monastery in sixteenth century Tuscany. We are utterly professional.'

'He abused my hospitality' boomed the Earl. 'I swore that ... if he ever again entered my domain I would have him gutted and dried ... like, like something that's been ... um ... gutted, first and then um dried ...''Perchance - a kipper my lord?' suggested the jester.

'Should have followed my idea.' said Mr Vandemar, 'Would have scared her lots more if I'd pulled his head off while she wasn't looking, then put my hand up through his throat and wiggled my fingers about. They always scream,' he confided 'when the eyeballs fall out.'