[Pathir]

Best opening line is, after careful consideration on my part, perhaps a bit constrictive. There can be many impressive and moving lines woven through a book, lines that keep lingering on in your mind because they really, really touched you.
So instead of only the opening line, choose one or more captivating lines out of your favorite books that made you laugh, cry or just nod silently in approval and understanding.

[Metosblat]

"Then I smashed her f***ing head in, like this!"

"one ring to rule them all,
one ring to find them,
one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them" LOTR

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[polgara]

Dare I raise my head into the firing line and say "she had a snake in her bodice" "who" "Liselle" "and what were you you doing in her bodice Silk" (eddings)

[cassandra]

Oki. This is so not from a fantasy book. But it kills me everytime I read it, so I have to share.

"Gunnar," she said sweetly, "do you actually know any working writers?"
He thought it over. "Do poets count?"
"Only to fourteen."
-Headcrash, Bruce Bethke

[Shehzad]

"These are the pale deaths
which men miscall their lives
for all the scents of green things growing
each breath is but an exhalation of the grave..."

Stephen Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane

[FitzChivalry]

My favorite scene ever, from The Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny, book 5 of The Amber Chronicles:

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As i headed us south, a small figure hailed me from the doorway I had so recently quitted. It was their leader with whom i had been drinking. I drew rein, to better catch his words.
"And where do you travel?" he called after me.
Why not?
"To the ends of the Earth!" I shouted back.
He broke into a jig atop his shattered door.
"Fare thee well, Corwin!" he cried.
I waved to him. Why not, indeed? Sometimes it's damned hard to tell the dancer from the dance.
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If you wonder what's so cool about that scene, i guess you'll have no choice but to read the books and find out..

[Arty]

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The horn sounded a thid time, and suddenly I knew I would live, and I was weeping for joy and all our spearmen were half crying and half shouting and the earth was shuddering with the hooves of those Godlike men who were riding to our rescue.
For Arthur, at last, had come.
-"The Winter King" Bernard Cornwell
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[Pathir]

' What is a voice? A doorway full with flashes of light and suggestions of darkness, gateway to a soul.'

Can't exactly remember which book this was from. I think the writer was GuyGKay...

[Bardos]

"Time to roll the dice!" --Mat, from the WoT.

"Blood and souls for my Lord Arioch!" --Elric of Melnibone

[Metosblat]

"Speak friend and enter" Gandalf