[Z]

1) The Controller
2) Luna Lovegood
3) James Bond
4) Charlie
5) Paddington Bear
6) Jo
7) Lestat
8) Doc
9) China Sorrows
10) Caliban
11) Ralph Fitzgerald
12) Mr. Toad
13) Jean Brodie

[Shaun]

1) Caliban - 44
=) James Bond - 44
3) Mr. Toad - 41
4) The Controller - 38
5) Paddington Bear - 37
6) Luna Lovegood - 34
7) Josephine March - 30
8) Doc - 29
9) Charlie - 26
10) Jean Brodie - 25
11) Lestat - 17
12) Ralph Fitzgerald - 14
13) China Sorrows - 11

[Shaun]

Group B:
Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down. I like almost anybody in the Bible better than the Disciples. If you want to know the truth, the guy I like best in the Bible, next to Jesus, was that lunatic and all, that lived in the tombs and kept cutting himself with stones. I like him ten times as much as the Disciples, that poor bastard.
Bella Swan (Stephenie Meyer)
About three things I was absolutely positive: first, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him – and I didn't know how dominant that part might be – that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
Caleb Trask, East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
I've been jealous all my life. Jealous, I couldn't even stand it. Tonight, I even tried to buy your love, but now I don't want it anymore... I can't use it anymore. I don't want any kind of love anymore. It doesn't pay off.
Calpurnia, Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Anselmo, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
I am lonely in the day when I am not working but when the dark comes it is a time of great loneliness. But one thing I have that no man nor any God can take from me and that is that I have worked well for the Republic. I have worked hard for the good that we will all share later.
Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
Desperate Dan (Dudley D. Watkins)

Mowgli, The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
Through the night, through the hot night, run swiftly
with me, my brothers. We will leave the lights
of the village and go to the low moon.
Waters of the Waingunga, the Man Pack have cast me
out. I did them no harm, but they were afraid of
me. Why?
The Woman In Black, The Woman in Black (Susan Hill)
It is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black – and her terrible purpose.
Molly Weasley (JK Rowling)
Beds empty! No note! Car gone-could have died you could have been seen by muggles , as long as I've lived-you wait until your father gets home, we never had trouble like this from Bill or Charlie or Percy-
Eric Birling, An Inspector Calls (J. B. Priestley)
I did what I did. And mother did what she did. And the rest of you did what you did to her. It's still the same rotten story whether it's been told to a police inspector or to somebody else.
Frankenstein's Monster (Mary Shelley)
Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?
The Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle)
On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon. That night he had a stomach ache.

[Shaun]

1) Frankenstein's Monster
2) Atticus Finch
3) Holden Caulfield
4) Anselmo
5) Calpurnia
6) Mowgli
7) Caleb Trask
8) Molly Weasley
9) Eric Birling
10) The Woman in Black
11) Desperate Dan
12) The Hungry Caterpillar
13) Bella Swan

[GypsyGoth]

1) Bella Swan
2) Frankenstein's Monster
3) Mowgli
4) Caleb Trask
5) Molly Weasley
6) Holden Caulfield
7) The Hungry Caterpillar
8) Anselmo
9) Atticus Finch
10) Calpurnia
11) Eric Birling
12) The Woman in Black
13) Desperate Dan

[MTVN]

Anselmo
Desperate Dan
Frankenstein's Monster
Holden Caulfield
Atticus Finch
The Woman in Black
Mowgli
Calpurnia
Caleb Trask
Eric Birling
The Hungry Caterpillar
Bella Swan
Molly Weasley

[Benjamin]

LOL at the quote from the Hungry Caterpiller. I look forward to the quote of Jesus.




1) The Hungry Caterpillar
2) Frankenstein's Monster
3) Mowgli
4) Atticus Finch
5) Molly Weasley
6) Caleb Trask
7) Anselmo
8) Holden Caulfield
9) The Woman in Black
10) Calpurnia
11) Eric Birling
12) Desperate Dan
13) Bella Swan

[Ammi]

1 Mowgli
2 Frankenstein's monster
3 Atticus Finch
4 Caleb Trask
5 Calpurnia
6 Woman in Black
7 Holden Caulfield
8 Bella Swan
9 Eric Birling
10 Molly Waesley
11 Desperate Dan
12 Anselmo
13 The Hungry Caterpillar

[Shaun]

1) Frankenstein's Monster - 55
2) Mowgli - 45
3) Atticus Finch - 42
4) Holden Caulfield - 37
5) Caleb Trask - 35
6) Anselmo - 33
7) Calpurnia - 27
8) Molly Weasley - 24
9) The Woman in Black - 22
10) The Hungry Caterpillar - 21
11) Bella Swan - 18
12) Desperate Dan - 16
13) Eric Birling - 15

[Shaun]

Group C:
Raoul Duke, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S Thompson)
All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped to create...a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody-or at least some force-is tending the Light at the end of the tunnel.
Celie, The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
"All the men got they eyes glued to Shug's bosom. I got my eyes glued there too. I feel my nipples harden under my dress. My little button sort of perk up too. Shug, I say to her in my mind, Girl, you looks like a real good time, the Good Lord knows you do."
Lyra Silvertongue (Philip Pullman)
"That’s why we needed our full life, Pan... we wouldn’t have been able to build it. No one could if they put themselves first. We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we’ve got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we’ll build…"
Desdemona, Othello (William Shakespeare)
My heart's subdued
Even to the very quality of my lord.
I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
And to his honors and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate
Moonface, The Faraway Tree (Enid Blyton)

Dr. Tony Hill, The Wire in the Blood (Val McDermid)
They think it's a brain tumour. An intracranial meningioma. But if I can pronounce it, there can't be that much wrong with me.
Piggy, Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
"I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's alright really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breath. I tell you what. He hates you too, Ralph —"
Shylock, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we shall resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter series (J.K.Rowling)
"The Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."
Matilda (Roald Dahl)
"Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable..."
Winston Smith, Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
"No," he said a little more hopefully, "no; that's quite true. They can't get inside you. If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them."
Edmund, Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
“Of the last-mentioned hero … I will say … that we have seen him two or three times, and that my friends here are very much struck with his gentlemanlike appearance. Mrs. Fraser (no bad judge) declares she knows but three men in town who have so good a person, height, and air; and I must confess, when he dined here the other day, there were none to compare with him”
Otto Quangel, Every Man Dies Alone (Hans Fallada)
“He was proposing something so ridiculously small, postcards with slogans against the Führer and the party, against the war, for the information of his fellow men, that was all.”

[Shaun]

1. Shylock
2. Winston Smith
3. Desdemona
4. Raoul Duke
5. Celie
6. Matilda
7. Albus Dumbledore
8. Edmund
9. Piggy
10. Otto
11. Lyra Silvertongue
12. Moon-Face
13. Dr. Tony Hill

[Z]

1. Celie
2. Otto Quangel
3. Desdemona
4. Albus Dumbledore
5. Matilda
6. Piggy
7. Winston
8. Shylock
9. Raoul Duke
10. Edmund
11. Lyra Silvertongue
12. Dr. Tony Hill
13. Moonface

[Ammi]

1 Celie
2 Edmund
3 Desdemona
4 Shylock
5 Moonface
6 Dr Tony Hill
7 Matilda
8 Albus Dumbledore
9 Lyra Silvertongue
10 Otto Quangel
11 Raoul Duke
12 Piggy
13 Winston Smith

[Benjamin]

How come Moonface has no quote?

1. Moon-Face
2. Matilda
3. Lyra Silvertongue
4. Raoul Duke
5. Piggy
6. Celie
7. Albus Dumbledore
8. Winston Smith
9. Shylock
10. Otto
11. Desdemona
12. Edmund
13. Dr. Tony Hill

[Shaun]

I tried googling but it was surprisingly difficult. Must be a REALLY CRAP CHARACTER

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Shaun

I tried googling but it was surprisingly difficult. Must be a REALLY CRAP CHARACTER

Have you never read the books as a child? That does suprise me. He was a main character in it.

[GypsyGoth]

1. Matilda
2. Lyra Silvertongue
3. Albus Dumbledore
4. Desdemona
5. Celie
6. Raoul Duke
7. Shylock
8. Piggy
9. Edmund
10. Winston Smith
11. Moonface
12. Otto Quange
13. Dr. Tony Hill

[GypsyGoth]

And I hope that's the end of the broom between Moonface's legs.

[Shaun]

I've never read an Enid Blyton book

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Shaun

I've never read an Enid Blyton book

No way! Not even the Famous 5!? You really should read The Faraway Tree, yeah it's a kids book, but it's an amazing kids book.

[Shaun]

My mum got the Famous 5 collection a couple of years ago but I consider myself a bit old to read them

[Shaun]

1. Celie - 47
2. Matilda - 44
3. Desdemona - 41
4. Shylock - 36
5. Albus Dumbledore - 36
6. Raoul Duke - 31
7. Lyra Silvertongue - 29
8. Winston Smith - 25
9. Piggy - 25
10. Edmund - 24
11. Moon-Face - 23
12. Otto - 21
13. Dr. Tony Hill - 8

[Stu]

Molly Weasley is on a short list of all time great literary characters?

Okay then.

[Shaun]

indeed.

[Shaun]

Group
Patrick Bateman, An American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
"I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning"
Hester Shaw, Mortal Engines (Philip Reeve)
To the onlooker, Hester presents an intimidating persona; angry, hateful, violent and with a fierce temper. Those who take the trouble to get to know her, such as her friend, lover and later husband; Tom Natsworthy, and their mutual friend Anna Fang, realise this is to disguise the more gentle and shy girl she would have been had life not treated her so badly. However, Hester undeniably feels little or no remorse in killing or injuring others, usually in self-defence or to protect those she loves.
Alice, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
'Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, 'and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I'll get into the garden, and I don't care which happens!'
Esther Greenwood, The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
I didn't feel like asking him if there were any other ways to have babies. For some reason the most important thing to me was actually seeing the baby come out of you yourself and making sure it was yours. I thought if you had to have all that pain anyway you might just as well stay awake. I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over — dead white, of course, with no makeup and form the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was.
Jon Snow (George R.R. Martin)
Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head.
Mrs. Twit, The Twits (Roald Dahl)
As she floated gently down, Mrs. Twit’s petticoat billowed out like a parachute, showing her long knickers. It was a grade sight on a glorious day, and thousands of birds came flying in from miles around to stare at this extraordinary old woman in the sky.
Miss Havisham, Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
I'll tell you what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter--as I did
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
You think to baffle me, you with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think you have left me without a place to rest, but I have more. My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already. And through them you and others shall yet be mine, my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed. Bah!
John Yossarian, Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
“From now on I'm thinking only of me.” Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: “But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way?”
“Then,” said Yossarian, “I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?”
Antonio, The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness,
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Trisha McFarland, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Stephen King)
The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.
Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
"Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow."
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases - viz. they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent. Not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which can only make them be esteemed wise men.