Mine is by Edgar Allen Poe and it is
all that we see or seem
is but a dream within a dream

That's actually a line from a poem, which I guess could be found in a book, but it's not really the same thing is it?

"forty-two"

I guess.

“People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”

Terry Goodkind- Wizard's First Rule

One of my favorite lines is from a magazine article in which a HOT ROD editor was testing the first GTO car with the 389 cubic inch engine and the three 2-barrel carbs.

"The first time I stomped the throttle clear to the floor the sensation was like going into combat for the first time, tasting my first beer, and losing my virginity all at the same time. The sound of the three 2-barrel carburetors was like some great Hoover-god sucking up sinners!"

Some of the best lines I have read come from the book John Dies at the End, such as this little segment:

“Which would prove I’m a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people I love?”

I really like that line alot.

For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors--between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it.

"Al straightened his crushed velvet and pulled me onto the boardwalk. 'No' he said as out heels clunked nno the wood. 'It's casual friday'''



The outlaw Demon Wails by Kim harrison

"Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know." -from The Stranger by Albert Camus

and...

"We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls." -from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

"Complicated events were occurring on the surfaces of her eyes."

Tim O'Brien-- The Nuclear Age