So interesting that you've posted this. I've been thinking about how great it would be to have a site devoted to excellent fic quotes. I've looked around but haven't found anything. Do you know of any?
Here are a couple of my favourite quotes (not all of them are the bring-you-to-your-knees kind but anyway...)
From Letitia Landon's A Scent of Memory (a fic that, unfortunately, seems to have been abandoned on Schnoogle a long time ago):
Harry wondered why every true and powerful thing was shabby and tattered, as though clean edges made a thing weak. He would have felt stronger for cleaner edges, but he didn't suppose you could find the edge of a man any more than his shell.
And so, Sirius who had lived for liberty and died for nothing at all was still not free.
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From Transfigurations: "Well," Malfoy said after a moment. "Not quite as well-organized as a Death Eater Christmas, but I must admit that the food is better."
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From Tissue of Silver:
As it slowly faded, Malfoy said, "If they'd won they would have destroyed that. I stopped them. And you did, too." He laid back down, the bottle dangling from his hand loosely off the edge of the sofa. "And that's enough. That's good enough."
-- Since reading this scene I haven't been able to listen to the Beatles' “Golden Slumbers” without Draco coming to mind.
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Also from Tissue of Silver:
"I think it was just that I'd started having the dreams, and I knew I had to switch sides. And I knew if I did my parents were going to die. And I was going to die. But the future, when Voldemort won - it was bad, Potter. You have no idea how bad. So there I was, and you were the champion of lost causes, weren't you? I mean, you were friends with The Weasel, and Granger, who, let's face it, started out rather poorly. You were dashing about saving everyone. I suppose I hoped you could save me, too. Charge in on your white horse. Maybe then I wouldn't have to go back to the Manor and be a spy against my own family and probably kill them and probably die. But Christmas came and everything happened just as I knew it would. I knew no one could save me, not even you. But thinking that you might gave me some comfort for a while, I think. Just until I got used to the idea, you know?"
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From mijan's Eclipse: "Your father really would have been proud to see you, Harry. He was a great man. I wish I had been." Peter Pettigrew to Harry
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Date: 2005-07-12 08:20 pm (UTC)Here are a couple of my favourite quotes (not all of them are the bring-you-to-your-knees kind but anyway...)
From Letitia Landon's A Scent of Memory (a fic that, unfortunately, seems to have been abandoned on Schnoogle a long time ago):
Harry wondered why every true and powerful thing was shabby and tattered, as though clean edges made a thing weak. He would have felt stronger for cleaner edges, but he didn't suppose you could find the edge of a man any more than his shell.
And so, Sirius who had lived for liberty and died for nothing at all was still not free.
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From Transfigurations:
"Well," Malfoy said after a moment. "Not quite as well-organized as a Death Eater Christmas, but I must admit that the food is better."
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From Tissue of Silver:
As it slowly faded, Malfoy said, "If they'd won they would have destroyed that. I stopped them. And you did, too." He laid back down, the bottle dangling from his hand loosely off the edge of the sofa. "And that's enough. That's good enough."
-- Since reading this scene I haven't been able to listen to the Beatles' “Golden Slumbers” without Draco coming to mind.
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Also from Tissue of Silver:
"I think it was just that I'd started having the dreams, and I knew I had to switch sides. And I knew if I did my parents were going to die. And I was going to die. But the future, when Voldemort won - it was bad, Potter. You have no idea how bad. So there I was, and you were the champion of lost causes, weren't you? I mean, you were friends with The Weasel, and Granger, who, let's face it, started out rather poorly. You were dashing about saving everyone. I suppose I hoped you could save me, too. Charge in on your white horse. Maybe then I wouldn't have to go back to the Manor and be a spy against my own family and probably kill them and probably die. But Christmas came and everything happened just as I knew it would. I knew no one could save me, not even you. But thinking that you might gave me some comfort for a while, I think. Just until I got used to the idea, you know?"
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"Your father really would have been proud to see you, Harry. He was a great man. I wish I had been." Peter Pettigrew to Harry