What book is this line from? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
"It was a pleasure to burn."
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"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."
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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."
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
"Tomorrow I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
"All this happened, more or less."
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
1984 by George Orwell
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Animal Farm by George Orwell
"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."
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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?"
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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."
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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."
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."
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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