What book is this line from? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"It was a pleasure to burn."
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"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
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Animal Farm by George Orwell
"Tomorrow I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
"All this happened, more or less."
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
1984 by George Orwell
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
"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
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."
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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."
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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."
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Beloved by Toni Morrison
"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
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."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
"Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark. For the straightforward pathway had been lost."
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Dante's Inferno
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
"You better not never tell nobody but God."
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
"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."
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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