Fun ITT we post random book lines/quotes out of context

'It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill Gollum when he had the chance.'

 

Two is enough because the adults are wrong and the younglings are right. Although this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last.

 

A time may soon come when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defence of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

 

Would it have been too much to ask for the order to come through before I gave him back the bloody lightsaber?

 

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
I would like to make a call.

 

Mirror mirror on the wall, what would happen if I let you fall?

 

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

 

I don’t need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!

 

Don’t Eat A Reader

 

'I am being eaten alive!' said Pippin. 'Midgewater! There are more midges than water!'
'What do they live on when they can't get hobbit?' asked Sam, scratching his neck.

 

I would not like Green Eggs and Ham, I would not like them, Sam-I-Am

 

And a point will be taken from Gryffindor for your cheek.

 

The game's afoot!

 

Catch the Snitch or die trying.

 

He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.

 

For neither can live while the other survives.

 

Far above, far above, we don’t know where we’ll fall,
Far above, far above, what once was great is rendered small

 

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

 

He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye.

 

This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment. Darzee, the tailor-bird, helped him, and Chuchundra, the musk-rat, who never comes out into the middle of the floor, but always creeps round by the wall, gave him advice; but Rikki-tikki did the real fighting.

 

Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing... about in boats — or with boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it.

 

Better drowned than duffers - if not duffers, won't drown.

 

"Sawdust", he would say proudly, "is one of the great secrets of my success. And it costs me nothing. I get it for free from the sawmill."

 

'Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?'

 

Here was a gorgeous triumph; they were missed; they were mourned; hearts were breaking on their account; tears were being shed; accusing memories of unkindnesses to these poor lost lads were rising up, and unavailing regrets and remorse were being indulged: and best of all, the departed were the talk of the whole town, and the envy of all the boys, as far as this dazzling notoriety was concerned. This was fine. It was worth being a pirate, after all.