Fel books quotes fortune file

[Shadowhawk]

I have noticed that some of you use quotes from Fel books: "Firestaff Series" and "Pyrosian Chronicles") in their forum signatures. Have you ever thought of making a collection of those quotes? I think about somethink in the format of the fortine cookies (<tt>fortune</tt> is the name of the Unix program which displays random quote or witticism). There are for example fortune cookies with quotes from Terry Pratchet "Discworld" series or Frank Herbert "Dune" series.

The fortune file format is quite simple. It is set of quotes/paragraphs (usually formated into no more than 80 characters wide lines) separated by a line containing a single percent `%'  sign. But not go into that. If you think it is a good idea we should begin with collecting your favorite quotes. This topic is in my opinion good place to do that.

By the way, do you think that this thread/topic should be made sticky? Or have we reached 'sticky topic limit' ? ;D ;D ;D

[Shadowhawk]

Examples taken from your signatures in forum.

Guardian_Mike/Weresmilodon:
<hr>"I'm a male. Males are supposed to act tough."
Tarrin, Chapter 29, The Questing Game.

Post your favourite quotes here...

[Shadowhawk]

    "I've been up since about midnight," he replied.  "This many Selani so close make me nervous.  I couldn't sleep."

       "They're not going to bother us, Tarrin," she chided.

       "Tell that to my suspicious nature."

       "Attention, Tarrin's suspicious nature," she called in a booming voice.  Tarrin looked at her, and saw her grinning like a naughty child.  "You have nothing to worry about.  The Selani will not bother us.  That is all.  Return to your prior paranoid delusions."
<hr>"Honor and Blood", Chapter 14
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[Shadowhawk]

See also "Funny moments in Firestaff history" thread...

[Shadowhawk]

[...]

      "I made it, that's all that matters," he said dismissively.  "The only problem now is how to get down."

       Sarraya looked at him, then laughed.  "We didn't think that far ahead, did we?" she admitted ruefully.  "I tell you, Tarrin, you're a bad influence on me."

       "I guess it's contagious."

       "Well, we can just wait a while and rest, and I can use the same trick to get you down.  Since you'll be going down instead of up, you'll probably be able to get to the ground faster."

       "Right.  I could jump off.  That would get me down faster."

       She looked at him, then stuck out her tongue at him.  "I meant safely," she said archly.

       "I'd be perfectly safe.  At least until I hit the ground, anyway."

       She looked at him crossly, then laughed.  "What's gotten into you, Tarrin?  You were never this funny before."

       "Blame it on the air," he said absently, dislodging her as he sat up.  (...)
<hr>"Honor and Blood", Chapter 15

[Wildcat]

The only problem with a fortune generator is that most of the quotes I can think of --- and even the examples you used! --- are too long to be appropriate for something like that. Funniest moment for me has to be Phandlebrass's clock. Although there are a lot of close seconds....

[Fel]

The Carnivorous Clock happens to be my favorite as well.  ;)

[Shadowhawk]

"I guess we will at that," she agreed, rising up onto her toes and kissing him, kissing him with a passion that told him just how much she had wanted him. If there was any one thing he had always remembered out her that made his tail curl, it was how she kissed. He found himself surrendering to her in every way because of that kiss, and it took Jasana pulling on his tail to remind him of where they were and what they were doing.

Both of them were a little breathless when the pushed away from each other, but Jasana simply looked at them with a happy little expression. "Dinner's getting cold," she told them with a wicked little smirk, enjoying breaking them up.

Or maybe enjoying the fact that they were kissing in the first place.

"Dinner. Oh, yes, of course," Jesmind said in a slightly scattered manner, fanning herself by flapping the front of her shirt. "Tarrin, get the bread--no, wait, you did that. I guess we can eat now, I guess. Did I get the stew off the fire?"

Tarrin looked at her, then he laughed heartily. He took her paw and led her to the table, with Jasana humming to herself as she carried the plates behind them.
<hr>"Honor and Blood", Chapter 23

[Shadowhawk]

But when she was sleeping like that, he could see no wrong in her, no matter how bad she was when she was awake.

Such was the programmed parental response to a sleeping child that usually kept children from being murdered in their sleep.
<hr>"Honor and Blood", Chapter 25 (about Jasana, Tarrin and Jesmind's daughter)

[Shadowhawk]

"Fickle female."

"Of course. If I were predictable, what fun would I be?" she challenged.
<hr>"Honor and Blod", Chapter 26 (Tarrin and Jesmind).

[Shadowhawk]

"Speak for yourself," Camara Tal snorted. "I'd say that most of us risked alot more than our necks."

"Well, yes, true, but seriously, my dear, if we start splitting hairs, we'll all end up bald."
<hr>"Honor and Blood", Chapter 31 (Camara Tal and Phandebrass)

[Shadowhawk]

"And I'd appreciate it if you didn't shout out her name while we're making love," she told him boldly. "That really annoys a girl, you know."

Tarrin looked at her, then laughed helplessly. He'd always thought he understood what it meant to be mates with a female. At that moment, he realized how wrong he'd been.

<hr>"The Shadow Realm", Chapter 2

[Shadowhawk]

"I think that's the problem. He's learned so much, maybe his brain can't hold it all. It all just leaks out his mouth."
<hr>"The Shadow Realm", Chapter 3 (about Phandebrass)

[Shadowhawk]

[...] He remembered rather ruefully back to his initial training, when Dolanna had told him that magic adhered to its own rules, and those rules weren't entirely logical.

       Given that the deity controlling magic was female, the fact that it wasn't a logical force was in its own manner a logical observation.

       Oh, you're going to get it for that, kitten, the Goddess warned playfully in the recesses of his mind.
<hr>"The Axe of the Dwarven King", Chapter 7 (about the fact that if somebody was in the area Sorcerer was Teleporting to, both would be killed, instead of exchanging places)

[Shadowhawk]

[...] there was some sense of superiority that Tarrin had noticed that every human culture--and non-human, for that matter--seemed to possess.  The consideration that outsiders were alright, but they could never be as good as them.  Even the Were-cats were like that, but at least the Were-cats knew that it was truth.

   At least as far as they were concerned.
<hr>"The Axe of the Dwarven King", Chapter 10 (about Amazons)