Favorite lines from your own writing

PFX, you're trying to shill your own work in hopes that you can talk people into liking it instead of just letting it speak for itself.

Stop.

That never works.

edited 21st May '13 2:34:42 AM by Wheezy

Well I was just here because I like the way the disclaimer sounded.

It's OK to like the disclaimer, but you probably shouldn't keep arguing with anyone who says it sounds like you're evaluating yourself too highly and talking about how brilliant you think your own twists are.

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Also...

— The journal of a severely depressed character.

edited 21st May '13 2:38:24 AM by Wheezy

Hey! Writing your Na No before November is cheating!

Cheating is highly encouraged at Na No.

But what's the point of cheating like that if you can just submit 50000 letters followed by 50000 spaces instead? The rewards don't matter (I never claimed mine last year, for example), just the self-imposed challenge. Breaking the challenge's (simple and lenient) rules kind of takes the fun out of everything.

Also, that was a good one, Tera Chimera.

10/9/14 Edit: This was bad. I know it's been a long time, but I'm removing it in case anyone decides to Archive Binge through this thread for any reason.

edited 9th Oct '14 12:05:32 AM by Wheezy

I am currently reimagining Viandas to go with New Dawn's reimagination, and instead of being Deus Angst Machina, cliches and overwrought attempts at copying what was done before, I decided to make it Black Comedy Dark Fantasy semi-parody.

One of the earliest funny things that happens is, ah, this;

On this planet, by the time your 21, you're ancient.

What does that make you?

Me? Im fuckin' Methuselah.

I apologize in advance for the horrendous things I am about to do to your transmission.

"You. You're scared of the creatures that hide in the dark, but you're scared of what the light reveals."

edited 3rd Jun '13 6:29:33 PM by Wheezy

Lloyd bit his lip as he thought desperately. He needed to come up with an excuse, any excuse.

"Deep down, boss, I think we all have this inner desire to yell 'This is my city!' before headbutting a narco through his penthouse window."

edited 4th Jun '13 10:28:08 AM by RedEyesNegroDragon

Also, your name is awesome.

I'm sure that was inspired by something, but I don't remember what.

edited 4th Jun '13 2:31:40 PM by JimmyTMalice

“You see that’s the main difference between me and the captain. I think with my noggin, and he thinks with his cock. It’s also why I’m still alone and he has three beautiful women fighting over him.” -Walrus, to my main character, Norwell Reach.

"Carl wasn't sure what to think when a heavily pregnant albino woman approached him after the graduation ceremony."

I don't know why, but for some reason I keep looking back at this line. It's still funny to me.

Jotted down in my notes regarding an Eldritch Abomination, I may end up using it in one of the CDTs or my work proper:

It was not old. To be old was to be far separated from one's time of birth. But no such time had ever been — the yawning abyss of eternity stretch behind and in front of it. It had always been, and always would be, without beginning or end. It was blessed and cursed to linger eternally in the forgotten crevices of the void that was womb and grave alike of all reality, an ever-present and hungry beacon of shining darkness.

edited 18th Jun '13 7:06:25 AM by KillerClowns

A giant spider to a man on why she would not eat him:

"Ah! Yes, I am the monster. I catch things in my net to eat them, devour their flesh and drink their blood. And what is a being other than what he does? But tell me: what is it that you do exactly? Where do you cast your nets, where do you spin your web and of what materials? It seems to me that you try to chain the things between the air we breathe, to catch the unknowable, to tame the entire world with one well woven strand of logic. Never stopping you spin your strands without even noticing that you are doing this. You think that the world is nothing but your web. You make it with your mind and the only thing you catch is your own mind. You are nothing and I do not feed from dust and empty shells."

Or some variant of the monologue above. It's slightly different every time and each time I get less satisfied with the particular phrasing, but in theory I love this bit.

edited 19th Jun '13 11:41:51 AM by Yachar

I don't have many lines that transfer well without a hell of a lot of context (and someone already complained about people posting whole tracts from their work), but this one's kind of funny; it is my main protagonist's maxim regarding the collection of payment, delivered after someone asks her why she's such a hardass about it.

"In full, on time, without complaint...pick any two."

edited 22nd Jun '13 6:44:56 PM by Night

There's this exchange between my protagonist and a professional leg-breaker, after he tells her the amount he'd charge for killing her:

“Christ," I said, "I'd be worth more dead than alive.”

“Most people are.”

edited 27th Jun '13 5:15:12 PM by drunkscriblerian

I often write fragmented. The following line doesn't have anything planned around it.

edited 29th Jun '13 11:11:59 AM by Squeakythemaster

This one requires some context, but the narrator is a ghost and is meeting up with some siblings.