Favorite sentence from your novel thus far?

So far it's my first sentence:

"My name is Bartholomew Benson, and I just killed twenty-two people."

My favorite is a characters response to an athiest claiming that heaven is "the opiate of the masses"

She just looked at him in stunned silence for a moment, then said "no, surgar is the opiate of the masses, Heaven is where we're just getting back from."

"I see who wears the pants in this relationship."

Yeah, he's talking to his horse...

Killing wasn’t a pretty business, Brutus decided, but it certainly did move things along.

"Jenna hadn’t read the assignment yet, but she was relatively certain that it didn’t contain the word striptease."

Yeah, she's upset because earlier she was having a medical exam in sick bay, and was changing from the paper gown back into her clothes -- when the captain of the ship walked in. It was the first time they'd ever seen each other. ^_^

My MC, after agreeing to share his bed upon threat of being tickled:

“If I find your hands anywhere weird, I'm going to break them,” he grumped, trying to fall back to sleep and pretend this insane midnight meeting never happened...kind of hard when there was a teenage boy poking you randomly asking, “Is this somewhere weird?”

My main character was describing a girl who came to ask him for help. I think this shows well how dispassionate he is:

"Her eyes are a fairly unimpressive shade of blue-green."

Edit: I think I like these better, just for how randomly they popped up in my head:

"Lucia is sitting on the edge of the fountain as it merrily bubbles away, providing a staccato counterpoint to the rhythmic pounding of my feet. I call out to her, “Mediator Lucia!” and continue to walk toward her. She, for what its worth, ignores me and instead begins to loudly hum a melody that uses my walk as the beat; I hate it when she does that."

"Poet dreamed about a superhero made of metal; He saved his life with the power of a thousand hot metal lights and flew him home where his perfect titanium grin withered Tarak’s defenses until he agreed to let him marry him."

"There was a sickening snap or something as his left fibula and the bones in his foot stretched apart, but it didn’t last long; he lost consciousness immediately."

It isn't particularly science-fictiony, but here's my favorite thing so far:

"She did not expect to see him cry today, possessed as he was of that special bravery that is only granted to twelve-year-old boys: too old for childish tears, yet too young to trust his adult ones."

"And to further kindle the fire of conflict between the two races, let's also point out that romantic relationships between manaelves and radioelves, while not necessarily illegal, are quite heavily frowned upon. It has popped up on the Ethernet under the guises of the recent expression "cybering the trolls"."

It's more of a couple of sentances, but since it's a conversation between one of my MC's and one of his robots, it counts:

"Sodding mail chute!! I swear the blasted thing has a vendetta against me!"

Allan bit his lip, trying not to laugh as Two-Two rolled over, initiating her hover mechanism and floated a few feet in the air, the two LED's that served as her eyes still glowing an angry red.

"Well there was that one time you insulted him Two-Two, what did you call him? 'A robotic whore that would suck anything?' That had to hurt his circuits in one way or another..."

"He started it! Telling me I was too fat to fit into the hole, the insulting bastard..."

“Hon,” she said calmly “If you're going to hold a gun to my head, at least have the common courtesy to explain specifically why.”

Fatigue struck Jake with the suddenness explosive decompression.

I think I'm cheating - this is definitely more than one sentence, but it is my favorite passage so far:

"Passengers wishing to board Shuttle 10965 bound for the Eastern Technologies Peninsula are reminded that all luggage must be pre-screened. Please proceed to Security Check-point G. Clear Vision Eye Care Products reminds you, have you cleansed your eyes today? Pollution, radiation, and daily reading can all lead to permanent eye damage. Don't wait until it's too late! Flush your eyes every day with our Renewing Cleanser. Order now. Welcome refugees of the Bollar System War. Please see our hospitality kiosk for your free gift from King Neptune brand toiletries. We make traveling more sanitary!"

Um, yeah. Anyway....

"State sponsored religion is against the charter.”
“Isn’t that what this is?”
“Well technically it’s a religion sponsored state.”

There was a sulphur storm last night, so sitting out on the back step wasn’t a particularly appealing idea unless I wanted to go to work smelling of rotten eggs.

"I haven't the faintest idea, Ma'am," he said. "To be entirely honest. I'm not Cade's keeper. Nor, as you all well know, have I ever been."

Every so often, Heller would slam his hand down on the table at a meeting and make some bluntly-revealing statement that rankled the egos and cowed the loyalists and just amused the handful of people who did not fall into either category, but today was not one of those days.

WAIT NO, I just remembered this other gem of a sentence:

It never ceased to amaze Kagawa how Parsons could appear so smart and well-spoken in person, yet when relegated to instant message the man sounded like an idiot teenager.

"He's not gay, Digit," Skywalker said, rolling his eyes. "Besides, I've seen the logs of what he looks at when he gets into my porno collection when he thinks nobody is looking."

I, too, must post a passge. Because the sentence is not -nearly- as good without context.

“Well, even if he didn’t, I’m sure he’s a big enough boy to get home on his own now, isn’t he?” Rose cackled, “I mean, it’s not like there’s aliens walking the street now, are there?”

*but of course my dear, you have jinxed the whole novel with this very sentence! mwhahahahahahah!*

I think I've read too much Douglas Adams!

"They died in screaming, molten agony."

"You're not allowed to touch yourself, either," Becky said, barely peeking through her fingers.

Try to guess the context of that. Heh.

I think it's a tossup between

"Colonel Catherine Schrodinger now had about one thousand disgruntled men under her command, a base whose reactor appeared to be held together with nothing more than chewing gum and bits of string, and what was about to be a very angry senior staff.

And, to her chagrin, the lunch line was entirely out of Jell-O."

and

“What?” Ari closed his laptop with an audible click. “You like it? She comes in here with the intention of creating some kind of military junta through her tyrannical regime of physical fitness, and you like it?”

and

"The survival training went well, as far as Ari was concerned. It was not that he enjoyed it, but rather that he managed to endure the entire eight-hour session without falling into a single suspicious looking mud puddle, being attacked by wild animals, or running out of power bars.

All in all, it was an informative afternoon. He learned how to make a fire, how to find shelter, and what not to eat unless he wanted to develop sudden, terrible health problems which involved a lot of large words whose meanings he distinctly did not want to know."

Yes, my novel is unabashedly silly.

These are so good, I'm going to have to go back to mine and do a re-write. That said I guess it'll be where mty central character is being woken by a 3D computerised representation of his mother:
Zack has reprogrammed the alarm call module with the head and voice of his mother, on reflection not one of his better ideas.

"Hunuycha looked up in fear at the statue in front of him. The creature looked back, its eyes dead of any expression. This was exactly the sort of thing that always gave him nightmares; but there it was, and there was absolutely no avoiding it. And of course, Hunuy was young enough that it would never occur to him to question why he had to run a gauntlet of fear every time he came in; after all, he had to deal with all sorts of other unpleasant things every day."

"Nerds have always been the same. It's just the hardware that got more powerful."