Eureka Moment/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


"Are you telling me that all of the swords were being made with these Words of Making?"
[Yis-fidri nods]

"Chukku's stones! [...] I think I am finally seeing to the heart of our enemy's plan, and I am very much afraid that the monk is right - there may be nothing for our doing after all!"
Binabik, To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn)

Or perhaps it's really not as deep
As I've been led to think
Am I trying much too hard?
Of course! I've been too close to see
The answer's right in front of me

Right in front of me
The Nightmare Before Christmas, "Jack's Obsession"

Square: "Well let's look at the facts, shall we? You said something fairly innocuous that happened to give me a brilliant idea. In order to inflate your hopes and dreams before crushing them, I called you a genius. The truth however, is that I was the one who had the idea, whereas you were just some blathering idiot."
Rectangle: "Square! You're back!"

Square: "So remember, when someone says "you're a genius," what they really mean is, "I'm a genius.""
"The Superfriends solved crimes in two ways: asking their computer to do it, or stumbling onto the solution by saying something stupid. For example, Marvin might say, "They've kidnapped Aquaman! We're in a real pickle now!" Which would cause Batman to say, "That's it! Now I remember that they're keeping Aquaman at the Gotham Pickle Factory!" Idioms are half the Super Friends' detective work."
"... I just gave you the answer, didn't I?"
"Permission to run off dramatically mid-sentence?"
Tip Wilkin, Skin Horse

This is Buffy-Speak for "Epiphany".