What book is this line from? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
"It was a pleasure to burn."
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontรซ
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"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."
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
"Tomorrow I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
"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."
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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 โ or ill?"
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
"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."
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
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
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine LโEngle
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontรซ
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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."
Dante's Inferno
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
"You better not never tell nobody but God."
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Animal Farm by George Orwell
4 Comments
I got 13 out of 22!
You like to read some classic books but not all of them. Or maybe you’ve read a few a while ago but forgot these quotes! That’s ok!ย Maybe crack open a book or two and the memories will come flooding back!
22/22.
I got 21 out of 22!
You are a literatureย ninja! You have read so many books that quotesย are practically spilling out of your ears!ย Constant Reader status = achieved!
22/22 I am a wiz!!!