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."
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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."
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."
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."
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Beloved by Toni Morrison
"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."
1984 by George Orwell
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
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."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
"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
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
"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
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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 Secret History by Donna Tartt
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"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
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
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."
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
"Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark. For the straightforward pathway had been lost."
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dante's Inferno
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
"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."
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"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
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