Quotes from Books As You're Reading (or Writing) Them

[audrey]

Anyone here like swapping quotes? I thought it might be fun if we had a thread for just popping in and posting a quick quote from whatever you're reading or writing. Add in a thought about it or not, whatever you're feeling.

Mods, if this thread is not appropriate, please amend or delete it as you see fit.

[audrey]

I'm happy to kick things off:

"'All things in this world eventually soak into the soil and stone,' Alun said once the wagon had taken its noise up the street a ways. 'It gets to be where a man, one who knows what to listen for, can hear the stones breathing. It gets to be where a man knows what the stones have to say.'

'The watch.' Cedar didn't care if Alun thought he could hear rocks conversing. Hell, for all Cedar knew, he was telling true and he could talk to stones. The brothers had strolled into town a year ago, just ahead of the rail man, and quickly struck the richest silver vein in the hills. Maybe they'd gone out and asked the mountain where the metals were hid. And maybe the mountain had sat down and told them."

--Dead Iron by Devon Monk, p.11

[Ashe]

I liked that scene, though, overall, the book was only okay. A fun little read but nothing I feel like I'll ever want to read again.

As far as what I'm writing, I'll be posting snippets each Monday of March but, here's a favorite quote from the first chapter.

“Your mother sounds like she was one helluva woman.”
“She was. She use to tease dad sometimes too. Said I got her good looks but his brains.” Trilgor smiled.
“We are a good lookin’ people,” the hunter replied with a laugh.

[audrey]

Ashe wrote: "I liked that scene, though, overall, the book was only okay. A fun little read but nothing I feel like I'll ever want to read again.

Fascinating. I'm a 1/3 of the way through Dead Iron and having to do that thing where you read super-slow so you can enjoy every bite. Did you wind up reading the rest of the series?

[audrey]

"That gun you carry. You any good with it?"

"I generally hit what I aim at, even if I throw the gun at it."

--Joe R Lansdale, Dead in the West

[Ashe]

Shit, I completely missed your response. No, I only read Dead Iron. I've contemplated reading the others. I might eventually but for now, I've got plenty of other stuff to read.

And that made me laugh. There was a line in Whirlwind that made me laugh last night but I'd have to re-read it to post it. Feelin fuzzy.

[Chris]

I laughed my ass of through whirlwind. For those who haven't read it, the book isn't a comedy, but the dominant POV's perspective is halerious.

in saying that I ready must disclose that I laughed most the first time I read it. yes, I read whirlwind in the thorn tree twice. Why? Because the first time I read it was immediately following surgery ... The painkillers had me rolling.

[Chris]

funny snipit:
"John's eyes crossed as he looked down the barrel of the gun. He sobered quickly. Carter, on the other hand, was still drunk. He was always drunk, but today he was a special sort of drunk: the sort that made you lose at cards, accuse your friends of cheating, and swear at them while waving a pistol in their face."
from Cailean the cross-eyed cowboy, book 1, chapter 2.

[audrey]

He looked down. The dead man wasn't very large nor very young. He had the look and the smell of someone who spent most his days riding and hunting bounties on men's heads and most his nights gambling away the noose money.

"Who?" he rasped.

"I'd ask his name," Rose said, "but don't think he'll say."

--Tin Swift

HEE.

[Ashe]

I take it you're still enjoying Miss Monk's stuff. How's the second book comparing to the first?

[audrey]

Ashe wrote: "I take it you're still enjoying Miss Monk's stuff. How's the second book comparing to the first?"

I'm still in that place where I'm reading super slowly to enjoy every single word because you only get that first time, but I have to say, I will always be here for a sequel that opens in the middle of the And Then Everything Went To Hell portion of happily ever after. Will report back.

[Ashe]

Oddmonster wrote: "Ashe wrote: "I take it you're still enjoying Miss Monk's stuff. How's the second book comparing to the first?"

I'm still in that place where I'm reading super slowly to enjoy every single word be..."

I really love the cover to Dead Iron but the story didn't grip me very hard. Wondered if maybe the sequel was an improvement. Might just go ahead and get it at some point. Worst case, I can always trade it.