Favourite passage?

I was going through some things and found what I consider to be my best chunk of writing I’ve done (which I’ll post below), but it got me thinking… do any of y’all have a favourite passage from any of my works? Some line or exchange or description that stuck with you or struck you as exceptional? I’d love to hear it.

Here’s mine:

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[BronyWriter]

Well, "with all of the 'quiet dignity and grace' I can muster, I walk up to Celestia and punch her in the face" literally changed my life. I don't know if I'd have been writing nearly as long without the line that made TD a HiE legend.

By the same token, I really liked writing Twilight and Starlight under the influence of the One Ring.

Starlight glared at me and stepped toward the ring until she was almost touching the pedestal. "That could activate it." She lit her horn and her magic encased the ring. "I just want us to be safe."

"Starlight!" I snarled, lighting my own horn. I tore the ring off of the pedestal and levitated it over to me.

"I saw it first!" Starlight cried. She grabbed the ring back with her magic and leaped toward me. I bared my teeth and threw a shield spell between the two of us. She bounced off of it and her magic sputtered out. She instantly shot to her hooves and began trying to break through my shield, unaware that the pedestal had just turned into a seven-layer wedding cake. "Give me that ring, Twilight! You just want it for yourself!"

"I won't let you hoard it for own selfish reasons," I retorted, strengthening my shield as she began pounding away at it with her magic. "This is obviously a powerful artifact. It needs to be studied, not just... I don't know, locked away, or something!"

"I will study it," Starlight insisted. "I just don't need your help to do it!"

I scoffed and rolled my eyes. "What could you possibly find out about it that I couldn't in half the time? I was trained by--"

"Princess Celestia herself," Starlight cut in with a mocking tone. "We get it: you're Little Miss Powerful." She gave me a condescending smirk. "I heard that the spell that turned Antares into an alicorn was supposed to be for you. What's the matter? Did it turn out that you weren't good enough?"

"Oh that does it!" I dropped my shield spell and shot a beam of magic at Starlight. She yipped and dropped to the floor, causing my spell to hit a display case behind her. It turned into a small replica of some wheeled contraption that had the number three pained on it in several places. I barely even noticed. I was more focused on Starlight, who was just as pissed off as I was. Her horn was charging up for a spell that I could tell had a bit of power behind it. Seriously, what was her deal? She should have just let me figure this ring out and then I might have given it to her. That wasn't happening now.

Starlight shot her spell at me, but I waved it aside with some of my magic. Thing is... I shouldn't have been able to. Starlight's spell had some punch behind it, and I shouldn't have been able to just wave it aside like she was shooting sparks at me.

Starlight seemed to have the same thoughts.

"Y-you're cheating somehow," she said, shakily pointing a hoof at me. "Princess Celestia couldn't stop that spell that easily!"

Okay, well that just told me that she'd really try to hurt me. Now I knew that she couldn't get her hooves on the ring. Somepony as clearly unstable as her couldn't have an artifact this powerful. No, I obviously needed to take the ring myself for safekeeping. With the power it gave me, I could keep it safe from ponies like her. For that matter, I needed to keep this ring a secret in general. If other ponies knew about this ring and what it could do, who knew what they'd do to get it? I needed to study it to really get a grasp on what it was, then I'd make my decision. It might even be a bad idea to let Princess Celestia take it. She wouldn't have done the research on it that I did. I hoped that she'd understand.

That left the matter of what to do with Starlight.

"Give it to me, Twilight!" Starlight screeched. "It's mine! I saw it first!"

"Starlight, just calm down and--"

"You stole it from me!" Starlight insisted. "I had it in my magic, and you just tore it away because you're a selfish nag!"

"You're delusional," I snapped. "I'm just protecting the ring from ponies like you!"

"Oh, and what exactly are 'ponies like me', Twilight?" Starlight snarled. "What does a prissy, stuck-up unicorn think 'ponies like me' are like?"

"You stole cutie marks from ponies and enslaved them!" I shot back. Starlight began circling me like I was a wounded animal. "Even Discord didn't do stuff like that!"

"Oh screw you!" Starlight cried.

Before I could say anything else, Starlight pounced. I couldn't get my shield up in time, and she slammed into me, sending us both tumbling to the ground. She slapped at my horn to get me to drop the ring. I moved my head in time to prevent her from hitting my horn, but she did catch me right under the eye. I grunted in pain, but shot a spell at Starlight that sent her flying back into my old bed, which turned into a pile of buttered noodles. She briefly slipped on the butter in her attempts to get back up to continue what I wouldn't even call a fight. I didn't want to hurt her as much as she wanted to hurt me, but if I needed to rough her up a bit to protect the ring, I'd do what I needed to.

The ring was just too important to let somepony like her have it. I could probably do a lot of good with the kind of power it clearly gave me. Maybe I could even give Applejack her eye and Rainbow Dash her leg back. Fixing Fluttershy's scar would probably be foal's play. I doubted that Starlight would help ponies like that. She'd probably use it to take the cutie marks of everypony in Equestria!

What happens when Pinkie Pie gets the ring was fun to write as well.

[Majin Syeekoh]

This makes me feel uncomfortable and I’m the one who wrote it:

I find myself returned to incorporeality as you sit bolt upright, shivering with your arms wrapped around your solid form—our solid form. On further examination, you appear to be sobbing.

You must have been roused into wakefulness from the idea of glorious cataclysm, the sublimity of our purpose driving you to tears. It pleases me that we are now aligned in intention now that you realize the fragility of your mortal bonds.

Looking upon you, with your staccato breaths and weeping eyes, I am reminded that I am as crucial to you as you are indispensable to me. We are as mind and body, useless when separate but complete when conjoined. Together we shall—

Words are escaping your mouth. Faint, although noticeable upon investigation. I focus my attention on them.

“M-midnight… sparkle… m-midnight… sparkle…”

You choke out each word between awestruck whines, possessed by wonder upon each intonation.

Midnight… Sparkle…

You’re referring to me, aren’t you?

I have to admit it warms me that you have assigned me identity and fully legitimized my existence.

I lean in and embrace you, upon which you shriek in joy and scuttle out of bed, tears still rolling down your face and off of your chin, dripping onto the floor. Your body shivers in elation.

“W-what was that? W-why is this happening to me?”

Twilight Sparkle, this is happening because we share a goal, a purpose! We are entwined by the fates to shred the world to pieces as vengeance against those who wronged us, especially the Sunset Shimmer monster who split us in half!

She plagues me at every turn, and the only way I can truly be rid of her ominous presence is to dissolve everything that exists!

Your head swivels left to right as you back into the corner and seat yourself onto the ground, wailing into your palms and your body shaking as you understand the beautiful gravity of what we were born to do. I am overjoyed by your willingness to be my vessel, that you wish destruction upon all as I do.

That you want your Midnight Sparkle to be happy.

-The final part of Thanatosian Impulse

And since Mr Bronywriter double-dipped, I’ll continue the trend.

All of Sunset’s nerves stood fully on edge as voluminous orange and yellow tresses and a slim, female body entered the room accompanying Twilight, a shoulder bag slung over her form.

Adagio Dazzle, always hair first, from Tripped Out.