Favorite Lines

I read with pen in hand. I'm sure many of you do that also. I used to write down tag lines, action beats and descriptions. I still do...some. Mostly I just bother when I find a really delicious line. One wonderful sentence can almost save an other wise cruddy book. Almost. I love words well written!

Ok, so I already mentioned the other day when I posted the review for The Town That Forgot How to Breathe, I have a new favorite line. I'll repeat myself...

"Low fat milk was disgusting. Low fat anything was an outright pox on the creamy white epidermis of pleasure."

I think I may have squealed a bit when I read that, and then I scribbled it down and shared it with whomever happened to be around me that day and the next. I quickly found that not everyone appreciates a good line like I do, or agrees on what a good line sounds like.

Nothing makes me happier than when I write a line in my wip (work in progress) that I think is exceptional and then I put it through my crit group and they make comments like "nice!" or "I wish'd I thought of that one."


I wonder if any of you have great lines you'd like to share, either in your own wip or in something you've read.

If so, please share!

(BTW, we've got an AWESOME line up of interviews. Quite a few telephone interviews to mix things up from our usual questions and some really big names. I won't be surprised if Stephen King's publicist tries to arrange something too. All right, maybe I'll be a little surprised.)