[Ruttiger]

Inspired by Reggie's movie line thread, what's your favorite passage or line from a book you've read?

Sid Marty is hands down my favourite author, bar none, and the closing passage from Men for the Mountains is pretty much perfect in my mind:

"He leaned forward then and held his gnarled hands out to the firelight, and the flames threw his shadow, magnified, onto the thick logs of the cabin wall. Then he began to weave a tale of high mountains and of proud men that rode among them, like princes surveying their estates, like lords high up in their strongholds, where only the wind could touch them, and where the world was free of pain and sorrow, and we were always young."