: Re: How to create a memorable line? I recently re-watched the Overwatch animated short "Honor and Glory". You can tell the writers were proud of the line "Live with Honor, Die with Glory", as the

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The power of a memorable one-liner is not the contents itself but rather the context in which it was said.

Consider this.

From out of nowhere your mother shouts: "Live with honor, die with glory!"

What does this mean to you? Does this weird you out, is it inspirational, is it meant to be funny? Will you investigate why she said what she said? Does it fit the scene?

All of this matters to make a one-liner powerful and memorable. If you want to write your own powerful one-liner, you will have to set the right scene.

The movie you were watching probably had lots of actionscenes and spectacular moves which you would have found awesome to see. These one-liners added to that affect on you. In a written story you don't have these imageries automatically. For such an effect in a story you will have to describe the scene, add the one-liner, and then the change it made on a character or scene.

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