What book is this line from? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
"It was a pleasure to burn."
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
"Tomorrow I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Persuasion by Jane Austen
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
"All this happened, more or less."
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
1984 by George Orwell
"3 May. Bistritz. Left Munich at 8:35 P.M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise, which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill?"
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved by Toni Morrison
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark. For the straightforward pathway had been lost."
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Dante's Inferno
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
"You better not never tell nobody but God."
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
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