Favourite Lines of Dialogue

Post your favourite lines of dialogue from a book or short story or show or script you've enjoyed! You can also post from your own WIPs if you like.

For a bonus, write down why you liked those lines. If there's spoilers, remember to use this code:

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Here's one of mine!

The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

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"Goodness knows, I've tried and tried, but it's no use. I've given what I had to give. I gave it all to Lord Darlington."

I like this line of dialogue because it uses such simple language to convey an intense emotion. In that way it mimics real-life speech, minus all the things like false starts and plus some literary neatness. The repetition of some words also conveys such a sense of the character's despair/ realisation.

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For additional context: this line is spoken as part of a larger chunk of dialogue, where the speaker, a butler named Stevens, is talking quite a bit more than a nameless passerby who just came to ask if he was okay, because he's an old man sitting crying on a bench.

Oh, I love this!

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"You still get to make suggestions, you just have to have patience."

"What if I don't have any?"
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"Behold, a real, live Chocolate Raspberry Elegance Cake!

"Dude, I've seen some guys look at their girlfriends the way you're looking at that cake."
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"Think your suitcase is big enough?"

"Shut your mouth."
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"You better not cough on me. This is a new jacket and it's dry-clean only, so I don't want you getting your germs all over it."
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(I don't have the book with me right now so this isn't an exact quote)

"Stop right there! I will not let you bring the forces of Hell into this world!"

"Sir, we're trying to get the forces of Hell back into Hell"

(Grounded for All Eternity by Darcy Marks)