Best lines from AMBER

[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

[Giovanna Clairval]

I leave you the rose and the twisted colors in the sky. I will miss you... - Corwin

[Flavia]

And this one, from Guns of Avalon:

Lancelot - Are you certain you are not the Devil?
Corwin -Yeah, sure. Don't you smell the brimstone?
And my right hoof is killing me.

[Snowdog]

Also from Guns -

"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

and

I squeezed, with all my strength, and twisted. I guess it did the same.
I heard something snap like a dry stick. I wondered whose neck had broken. Mine sure hurt.

[Strife]

I can see that you have a lot to unlearn. - Hugi

If you are talking about my vulgar instinct for survival, forget it. - Corwin

[Giovanna Clairval]

Yes, but I wondered... 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 turned out. - Bill Roth

I can appreciate the feeling, my own role sometimes makes me want to strangle the author.But look at it this way: inside stories seldom live up to one's expectations. Usually they are grubby little things, reducing down to the basest of motives when all is known. Conjectures and illusions are often the better possessions - Corwin

[Giovanna Clairval]

I don't like leaving you - through I'm not anxious to stay either. Care for a hand grenade? - Florimel
No. Thanks. Why do you have it, anyway? - Merlin
I always carry them in this shadow. They sometimes come in handy... - Florimel

[Strife]

Merlin, "It is also said that we are descended of Dworkin and the Unicorn, which gave rise to some unusual mental images."

[Giovanna Clairval]

"Sure wish I could have a cigarette," I said, and the girls giggled, though rather a little too rapidly and perhaps with a bit of a twist of the treble control.


Corwin (Nine Princes in Amber)

[Strife]

"Wishes, wishes," I told him, "Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true."

Corwin

[Giovanna Clairval]

"To paraphrase Hamlet, Lear and all those other guys: I wish I had known this some time ago."

[ckovacs]

"We’re tough meat, we of Amber." - Corwin

"Patience, they say, is chiefly a virtue for statues, but I’d made more than my share of mistakes, thus far, and blood is hell to get out of good rugs." - Corwin

Both from the incomplete story "A Secret of Amber."

[Strife]

oh! New lines, then.

More, more, ckovacs!

And didn't Brand say something along the same lines about a rug in his room?

[Giovanna Clairval]

He did, Strife. Corwin owned hs life to that rug (for a while).

[Snowdog]

"Out of every life a little blood must spill. Unfortunately, it was my turn again..."

Corwin, in Sign of the Unicorn.