Best lines from AMBER

[BloodAndSouls]

Woah, I don't remember so many of these! I think it's finally time for another re-read of Amber... mwahaha!

Anyway, my favourite line of all time is Corwin's "Forget it. Bitches all, they."

And I think it was Luke who said something along the lines of: "Sometimes the mills of the gods grind too damn fast and we get buried in the grist."

[Giovanna Clairval]

"Anything you like. Have you any preferences?
My flight from Chaos to this small sudden island in the sea of night?
My meditations upon the abyss?
The revelation of the Pattern in a jewel hung round the neck of a unicorn?
My transcription of the design by lightning, blood, and lyre while our fathers raged
baffled, too late come to call me back while the poem of fire ran that first route in my
brain, infecting me with the will to form?
Too late! Too late. . . Possessed of the abominations born of the disease, beyond
their aid, their power, I planned and built, captive of my new self.
Is that the tale you'd hear again?
Or rather I tell you of its cure?"


---Dworkin to Corwin (who is posing as Oberon)
The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny

[Giovanna Clairval]

Oh, this is one of my favourites (from Hand of Oberon):


"Good evening, Lord Corwin," said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it.
"Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?"
"A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful."
"You enjoy this duty?"
He nodded.
"I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here."
"Fitting, fitting," I said. "I'll be needing a lantern."

[Giovanna Clairval]

And then...


He took one from the rack, brought it to flame from his candle.
"Will it have a happy ending?" I inquired.
He shrugged.
"I'll be happy."
"I mean, does good triumph and hero bed heroine? Or do you kill everybody off?"
"That's hardly fair," he said.
"Never mind. Maybe I'll read it one day."

[K. Riehl]

"Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver."
"Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it" - Corwin

later in the same scene-"Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!" it said. "I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!"
"You burn prettily," I said.

From Courts of Chaos-
Corwin lets a Jackal lead him towards the courts-
"Wait," I called to him. "I do want to rest now. I thought you said that it was not far."
"Forgive me," it said, halting, "for jackalocentrism. I was judging in terms of my own natural pace...."

they fight and the Jackal loses-
"It would have been so fine," it said softly, "to eat a Prince of Amber. I always wondered- about royal blood."

[easygoingman]

From Sign of the Unicorn
Bill: "I've a peculiar feeling that I may never see you again. It is as if I were one of those minor characters in a melodrama who gets shuffled offstage without ever learning how things turn out"
"I can appreciate the feeling," I said. "My own role sometimes makes me want to strangle the author...." (That's the start of Corwin's words)
Bill has not turned up again after another 130 pages

[easygoingman]

Originally Posted by Strife

I've always liked this one:



Oh, basely done! I had hoped for better of thee! - Borel of Chaos
This isn't exactly the Olympic Games. - Corwin

lots of excellent quotes and this made one me laugh when I read it.
I've finished the first 5 books and WOW, great writing, a fantastic story written with brilliant imagination.

Bill does come back now I've finished the stories and he learns more. 10/10 quality story.

[Strife]

Go on, Easygoingman, read the Merlin cycle, now. I think it's underrated. I for one enjoyed every bit of it.


What do you want, anyway? - Merlin
Your blood, your soul, your mind and your body. - Mask
What about my stamp collection? - Merlin

[easygoingman]

Hi Strife

I certainly will read it but not right now as I've got lots to read already. If I had more free time and cash I'd read it this weekend! The first five stories are certainly ones to treasure.

[Flavia]

The price of being an Amberite is that sometimes you can't even trust yourself. - Corwin

[Sephiroth]

I trusted him like a brother, that is to say, not at all. - Corwin







I've read the first two books now (and the first chapter of the third), and am loving them.

[Strife]

Being stabbed takes a lot out of you - Luke

[Strife]

"We are not yet beaten. You will be yourself again."
I shook my head.
"It is like the last chapter of Alice," I said. "If I shout, 'You are only a pack of cards!' I feel we will all fly into the air, a hand of painted pasteboards. - Corwin