In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Lush]

A great Tori Amos lyric, that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship:

"If you need me, me and Neil will be hanging out with the Dream King."

[Bêthberry]

Time to put dragons to rest.

Þä se wyrm onwoc, wroht wæs genïwad.

For something a little more light-hearted:

Seriously old school.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

It is with great regret that I retire my wonderful Lay of Leithian quote, at least temporarily, but the temptation was irresistable.

For every minstrel hath his tune; and some are strong and some are soft,
and each would bear his song aloft, and each a little while be heard,
though rude the note, and light the word.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Well, I'm not usually so quick to change my signature that I double post here, but there's a first time for everything! Ring out the old:

You should have learned by now: Never be generous to Esty, NEVER! (from a post by Rune)

Ring in the new, which I post here including translation, as a service to all members who don't read German:

Fortsetzungen sind das Grab der Fantasie. Große Bücher bleiben stets Solitäre, deren Fortsetzung wir uns nur selber erfinden können. (Jörg Schiffmann in LN)
Sequels are the grave of imagination. Great books remain solitaires whose sequel we can only fabricate ourselves. (my translation)

This memorable statement was the conclusion of a newspaper's book review of Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide books.

[Lush]

I'm fickle with my signatures, but that doesn't mean I don't adore them all:

I want your love. And I want your revenge. I want your love. I don't wanna be friends.

GaGa 4-eva.

ETA: You were a genius for starting this thread in the first place, Esty. So many good quotes. So many memories.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Originally Posted by Lush

ETA: You were a genius for starting this thread in the first place, Esty. So many good quotes. So many memories.

Why thank you! Like any good graveyard, there's plenty of interesting reading to be had here.

[Pitchwife]

Retired for now, but bound to be back sooner or later (it's just too good):

Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men fight for what they meant under another name. - William Morris

Replaced for the moment by

Come not between the sheep and his pasture! Or he will not slay thee in turn. He will bear thee away on his horns to the pens of lamentation, where the tufts of thy head shall be nibbled, chewed and ruminated on in all eternity.

which came to me this afternoon as I was reconstructing the fence that keeps our two rams from my wife's flower-bed. (I know, it's rather silly...)