Favourite lines / quotes from fic

[birdsofshore]

Sometimes a line gets stuck in my head. It's not usually anything deep or meaningful, although occasionally it might be. At the moment, some of my best ones are:

"He's sarcastic, and haughty, and REFUSES to wear a shirt." from dustmouth's Keep Your Shirt On

"The Saviour of the bloody wizarding world does not. Wear. Pants." from dysonrules Wayward Owls and Pub Hunts.   

Ok, there's a bit of a theme going on there...

Here's a corker from one of my FAVOURITE FICS which everyone should read, but hardly anyone ever does. It just makes me cackle.

"Greg," repeated Draco. "Big man, quiet—"

"Former minion," added Harry, which earned him an elbow in the ribs.

from omi_ohmy's The Redemption of Gregory Goyle.

Here's a beautiful one:

his flaws were the salt that brought out the flavour from who_la_hoop's The Rabbit and the God

Then the last one, which is not quite right, as I've forgotten where it's from, but it was a dialogue between Draco and Pansy, and went something like.

"Then I saw Weasley."

"Which one?"

"Our King."

Ahahahaha. Point me to that one if you know it, please. from Pursuing Potter by hereticalvision

Do lines from fics take up residence in your head? Which are your favourites, at the moment? Just short, but perfect, or funny, things that have stayed with you.

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[awickedmemory.livejournal.com]

"Just do me a favour," Blaise said, prodding Draco and making him look up inquisitively. "Next time you get the hots for someone, don't curse them, just do the normal thing and ask them on a fucking date."
- "Imperio" by sara_holmes

It took Harry a whole eight hours and twenty-two minutes to panic about what had happened between him and Draco. This was because he had been asleep for eight hours and twenty-one of them.
- "State of Mind" by sara_holmes

"Fair point," Ron said. "And we're not worrying, really. It's just a bit disconcerting."
Harry looked at him. "No, that's disconcerting."
"What's disconcerting?"
"That you used the word disconcerting."
- "Mental" by sara_holmes

"You'd better go and apologise to him right now, you ungrateful little -"
"Sod?" Ron suggested. Hermione paused.
"No, something stronger."
"How about tosser?"
"No, I really don't feel comfortable using that word."
"Git?"
" – git!" Hermione finished.
- "Lonely Moon" by eleventy7

Harry takes a sip from his blue-striped (and quite hideous) mug and addresses the eyes that have attached themselves to his table.
- "Delaney" by RurouniHime


And a few non-Drarry ones...

"Bullshit. That's awesome." - Tony Stark after Steve Rogers informs him he did actually ingest food completely unawares during an otherwise unbroken work binge.

“Everyone okay?”
“No,” Spidey said. “I think I webbed myself.” There was a slightly hysterical giggle, and he keeled over sideways. “I totally webbed myself.” He threw his hands in the air. “WHEE! There is webbing EVERYWHERE!
Steve turned around, leaning his arm over the back of the seats. “I'll take care of the cleaning bill. Tony? You okay?”
Tony was breathing hard, his face flushed his hands latched onto the seats. “I have never been so turned on in my entire life,” he managed at last.
- "Dating the Long Way Around" by scifigrl47 [Avengers]

"Avengers!" Nick Fury's voice says. "We have giant frogs in Central Park. I repeat: giant frogs. Yes, Barton, I am serious. Get your asses over here, hoppity hop."
- "many names in history, none of them are ours" by aubkae [Avengers]

"Oh my god Tony what the fuck, seriously, what the fuck?"
- "Rom-Commed By Fate (Or JARVIS)" by leashy_bebes [Avengers]

[birdsofshore]

Oh LOL, these are also great. I'm not getting all the jokes in the fandoms I don't know, possibly, but they still come across as funny.

Do you always save snippets of fics that you like, or did you go on a hunt for these?

[awickedmemory.livejournal.com]

I've gotten lazy and stopped saving snippets (and I usually read fic on my phone these days, so I can't save snippets readily), but I used to do it pretty routinely, yeah. :D I have an e-mail to myself (currently about four e-mails long, actually) just with fic quotes that I liked. ^^;;;

[birdsofshore]

How wonderful! When I was a teenager, I used to have a folder where I would write out my favourite quotes from books. It was a really geeky thing to do, but it made me so happy. I haven't thought of it for years, though... I wonder where it went?

[awickedmemory.livejournal.com]

Maybe on an external harddrive or burned onto a CD somewhere? That's how I used to do it - I had so many text files of quotes! - but as the years went on, I changed computers, then went to multiple computers, it was just too hard to keep them all in sync. @___@ That's why I save them to e-mail now. XD