hey! hope you’re doing well. I’m starting to reread the HQ at Hogwarts series because I needed a change of pace from my work at uni (and it’s a comfort read of mine). anywho, I was wondering if you had a favorite quote from any of your stories that you wrote and why (or just the quote if it is to avoid spoilers)? like were there any quotes that really made a scene worth writing to you?
Oooh I love this ask, thank you!
Let's see, I don't know if these are my favorite but they're lines that come to mind a lot that I'm specifically proud of (tbh I tend to forget lines until I'm re-reading one of my stories and see it and go "oh yeah, that one")
I'll try to do one per series. I can't really pick one from Past is a Mirror or Call Me Your Home At Night yet, I'll have to wait until they're more done:
Oof somehow this is the hardest series to choose just one line from. That said, it's a super dark line for a dark chapter but I really love the use of homophones in this one.
Dick tilts his head up to the sky and laughs.
Laughs until it hurts and it does, it hurts so much, and that just makes him laugh more--throwing his arms out like he can fly on the ground and turning in a circle in a dirt covered Gotham alley that even the morning can’t erase.
Because Robin always smiles when it’s dark. Until it’s morning again.
….Dick’s laugh fades out.
And, eight years old and with a bone deep gravity too heavy for his small body, Kuroo Tetsuro quietly made a vow even if Kozume Kenma would never hear it.
I’m going to build a kingdom around you.
(Not a line but Tsuki and Hinata's final conversation in Shufling the Deck is what really sold me on writing that sequel)
Walking With My Eyes Open/ In Spite of Ourselves:
Honestly for short stories this series has some of my favorite conversations; but, a couple of favorite lines are these two.
But, human shoulders weren’t meant to bear the expectations of divinity.
A riddle, Schrodinger’s long lost love letter. Gen had proof he fell in love--was dying to try even--yet still couldn’t quite believe it. So, which was the lie?
I really love the prologue for Department of Mysteries; I wrote it waaaay before I posted it and was excited about posting it for awhile. I think the end just eally says everything about how long and how deeply Akaashi does love Bokuto.
He was bright and happy and so deeply good in a way that was everything Akaashi wanted that he fell in love by the time he took the hand.
Truthfully, my favorite of my humorous stories; I like this exchange a lot from when their van breaks down. It just eels like it really fits all of them.
“I’m looking up directions,” Suga said, already pulling out his phone.
“But….but, map !” Oikawa held it up even as it drooped around him.
“Great,” Kuroo said, “we can use it for shelter when we’re stuck out here and have to take up foraging.”
Bokuto brightened. “Ooh, I’ve got a pocket knife!”
“Yay, we’ll need it to fight off the wolves,” Kuroo said.
“I don’t think it’s that dire,” Suga said, showing them the screen. “There’s a town pretty close by. Can’t find a taxi or a towing service, though. We may have to walk if Iwaizumi can’t fix it. It’s about an hour.”
Kuroo shrugged. “Honestly, Iwaizumi can probably fix it. He’s like the machine whisperer or something.”
“Iwaizumi cannot fix it,” Iwaizumi said from right beside the passenger window and Oikawa jumped. “The transmission’s out.”
“Then, put it back in,” Bokuto suggested.
Iwaizumi stared. “I’m seriously having all of you read a car manual one of these days."
Thanks again for the ask! Trutfully I always love hearing what people's favorite lines are; I just think it's really neat to see what sticks with people and I'm always touched that it could be something I wrote.
