I like reading. I know, I'm horrible, but if any of you others like reading as well, maybe you can post a favorite quote from a book you've read. I will begin with mine.

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" - F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to figure that out for themselves." Stephen King (Wolves of Calla)

Got some other ones

"Get tough and nobody can hurt you, get smart and nobody can touch you" - S.E Hinton (The Outsiders)

"That is the last man, if you are human, that is the last of humanity" - George Orwell (1984)

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face, for eternity" - George Orwell (1984)

"I am young, I am twenty years old, yet I know nothing of life but death, despair, and Superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow" - Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front)

“At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.”

- Watership Down

“Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” - Mad Hatter, Alice in Wonderland
"We're all mad here." - Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland
"It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen." - Alex, A Clockwork Orange  

"I don't care if she exists or not, I will help her" - When Marnie Was There

Bump

"It's time to stop hiding under the bleachers." Edward Bloor - (Tangerine)

"now a new and better peach, now a seedless grape" - H.G. Wells' The Time Machine (1895)

Context is that the time traveller has just arrived in the future and he thinks its some sort of communistic paradise where selective breeding has made fruit (and live stock and flowers and shit) just generally genetically superior. My first feeling towards this is hilarity; it still cracks me up that 19th Century science fiction writers were fantasising about the day that mankind will be free to eat grapes without the burden of having to spit out seeds. My second feeling is that it is mind-blowing that H.G.Wells successfully predicted the emergence of something so specific as seedless grapes.

"Not a groan, not a sigh, just a mass agony in silence." Night, Elie Wiesel

This guy is a holocaust survivor.  He wrote a book of accounts of some of the shit he went through.  There's a part where the camp he's in is about to be liberated, but the germany ss soldiers march the prisoners out of the camp towards a different one.  At one point, in the snow, and naked, they let the prisoners rest.  That's when he looks around at his people and thinks that quote.