There are books that are fountains of quotes. Jim Butcher writes like that. His Harry Dresden Series has so many good quotes, it makes you dizzy during reading. Every third sentence feels like it should be printed on a T-Shirt. The book I'm reading right now is "Red Seas under Red Skies" by Scott Lynch. This is the second installment in an absolutely outstanding fantasy series. The first volume "The Lies of Locke Lamora" has stirred the fantasy world - it has by someone clever enough to see the obvious been called the "fantasy version of Oceans Eleven" and that comparison fits well. The author revels in mind games and built his plot layer over layer. To unveil every of these layers can leave the reador in an state of constant amazement. Also the characters are consistent. And then the quotability on top of that ... this is proof of more than just talent, that's more like genius.
Normally I gulp my books up in one go, but not this, you have to read it slowly, turn around every sentence three times in your mind, cause you wouldn't want to miss one of the layers. And savour it.
Let me give you some especially quoteworthy wisdom from Scott Lynch:
"Difficult and Impossible are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora in RSuRS, p. 93)
"As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decissions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It's not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination." (Locke Lamora in RSuRS, p. 101)
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