What book is this line from? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
"It was a pleasure to burn."
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
"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."
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"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
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"Tomorrow I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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 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."
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"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
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
"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?"
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
"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
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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."
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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 L’Engle
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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 Brontë
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
"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
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dante's Inferno
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
"You better not never tell nobody but God."
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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