Basically, here people can just post quotes they like from either a book or a play. You don't have to guess where they came from or anything, although you can if you want to. But I thought it would be nice to have a thread that have quotes from books/plays. I think of it as a sort-of game, so I put it here (and also I think it's most appropriate here, anyway.)

Anyway, here are some quotes of my own:

"It was the classic Mother BB Gun Block! I was sunk! That deadly phrase, used many times before by hundreds of mothers, was not surmountable by any means known to Kid-Dom. I had really booted it, but such was my mania, my desire for a Red Ryder carbine, that I immediately began to rebuild the dike."
- From the book "In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash"

"My mother would simply throw her shoulder against the front door, pushing back the advancing drifts and stone ice, the wind raking the living-room rufg with angry fury for an instant, and we would be launched, my brother and I, like astronauts into unfriendly Arctic space. The door clanged shut behind us and that was it. It was make school or die!"
- From "In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash"

"I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead. With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the road."

- From the book "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac