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."
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."
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."
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
"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
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
"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
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
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
"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 Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
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."
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Dracula by Bram Stoker
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."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
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?"
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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."
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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."
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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 L’Engle
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."
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."
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dante's Inferno
"You better not never tell nobody but God."
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"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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