1984

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Author: George Orwell

Year: 1949
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

The Handmaid's Tale

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Author: Margaret Atwood

Year: 1985
"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white
spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps
between the stories."

The Time Machine

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Author: H.G. Wells

Year: 1895
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the
common sense of the morning.

Anna Karenina

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Author: Leo Tolstoy

Year: 1877
"It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it."

Jane Eyre

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Author: Charlotte Bront

Year: 1847
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering
wrongs."

The Road

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Author: Cormac McCarthy

Year: 2006
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to
forget."

American Psycho

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Author: Bret Easton Ellis

Year: 1991
"There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no
real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze
and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can
even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there."

Don Quixote

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Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Year: 1605
"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he
went completely out of his mind."

A Room With A View

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Author: E.M. Forster

Year: 1908
"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving
from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a
place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very
much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine."

Kafka on the Shore

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Author: Haruki Murakami

Year: 2002
"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."

Ulysses

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Author: James Joyce

Year: 1922
"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

The Mysterious Island

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Author: Jules Verne

Year: 1874
"It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that
solitude can quickly destroy reason."

London Fields

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Author: Martin Amis

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Year: 1989
"And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look
and feel like shit."

The Scarlet Letter

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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Year: 1850
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another
to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the
true."

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

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Author: Oscar Wilde

Year: 1890
"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

The Children Of Men

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Author: P.D. James

Year: 1992

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"We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of
time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life ."

Revolutionary Road

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Author: Richard Yates

Year: 1961
"No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying."

Their Eyes Were Watching

God

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Author: Zora Neale Hurston

Year: 1937
"She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found
her."

Great Expectations

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Author: Charles Dickens

Year: 1890
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

Frankenstein

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Author: Mary Shelley

Year: 1818
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

Valis

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Author: Philip K. Dick

Year: 1981
"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."

The Witches

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Author: Roald Dahl

Year: 1983
"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves
you."

Birdsong

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Author: Sebastian Faulks

Year: 1993
"I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine."

Stardust

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Author: Neil Gaiman

Year: 1999
"She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and
watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars."

The Price of Salt

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Author: Patricia Highsmith

Year: 1952
"Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her."

The Good Soldier

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Author: Ford Madox Ford

Year: 1915

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"Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content
everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing."

MIddlemarch

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Author: George Eliot

Year: 1874
"We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between
breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the
lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not
a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts not to hurt others."

Beloved

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Author: Toni Morrison

Year: 1987
"You are your best thing"

breakfast at tiffany's

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Author: Truman Capote

Year: 1958
"Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot."

The Sound And The Fury

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Author: William Faulkner

Year: 1929
"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels;
only when the clock stops does time come to life."

Snow Falling on Cedars

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Author: David Guterson

Year: 1994
"None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in
the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each
other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is."

In a Free State

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Author: V.S. Naipaul

Year: 1971
"The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves."

The Curious Incident of the

Dog in the Night-Time

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Author: Mark Haddon

Year: 2003
"Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that
we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but
we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are."

Moby Dick

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Author: Herman Melville

Year: 1851
"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

Rita Hayworth and the

Shawshank Redemption
(Different Seasons)

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Author: Stephen King

Year: 1982

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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright,
their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to
feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was
wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you
live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

2. In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into
stars.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich
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3. She wasnt doing a thing that I could see, except standing

there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe
together.
J. D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew
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4. I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my

heart; I am, I am, I am.
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Suggested by Brooke K., via Facebook

6. Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly,

stupidly.
Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
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7. Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight

of all the lives Im not living.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Suggested by Kellie C., via Facebook

8. What are men to rocks and mountains?

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
10. Dear God, she prayed, let me be something every
minute of every hour of my life.

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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11. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Suggested by Therese K., via Facebook

12. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves

the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that
you inspired it.
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
14. As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts
and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can
happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Suggested by Alyssa P., via Facebook

15. If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be
me.
W. H. Auden, The More Loving One
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16. And now that you dont have to be perfect, you can be
good.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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18. There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than
are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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19. America, Ive given you all and now Im nothing.

Allen Ginsburg, America
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20. It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept

defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
22. At the still point, there the dance is.
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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23. Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and
her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life
answering.
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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24. In spite of everything, I still believe people are really

good at heart.
Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
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26. The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to
me in all the right order.
Toni Morrison, Beloved
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27. How wild it was, to let it be.

Cheryl Strayed, Wild
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28. Do I dare / Disturb the universe?

T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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30. She was lost in her longing to understand.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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31. She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that
fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to

appear before the world.

Kate Chopin, The Awakening
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32. We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them

behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a
memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once
our eyes watered.
Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead
34. The half life of love is forever.
Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her
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35. I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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36. There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you
are one of the lights, the light of all lights.
Bram Stroker, Dracula
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37. Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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38. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not
one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About
Love
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39. I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Charlotte Bront , Jane Eyre
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41. I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly

because you tread on my dreams
W. B. Yeats, Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
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42. It frightened him to think what must have gone to the

making of her eyes.
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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43. For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
Langston Hughes, The Big Sea
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45. I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with

the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things,
packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of
the night.
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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46. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back

ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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47. Journeys end in lovers meeting.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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49. It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live,

remember that.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
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50. Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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51. One must be careful of books, and what is inside them,

for words have the power to change us.
Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
The Princess Bride(Sharon F.)
It is a truth universally that a single man in possession of a
good fortune must be in want of a wife. Pride and
Prejudice(Shelley H.)

Have a biscuit, Potter. Harry Potter and the Order of the

Phoenix (Megan B.)

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. A Tale of

Two Cities (Mary Ellen R.)

My dear, I dont give a damn. Gone With the Wind (Michelle

C.)
Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and
will never dream of revolution. Brave New World (Amber D.)
By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as
sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all
day long. Memoirs of a Geisha (Sunny H.)
Neighbours bring food with death and flowers with sickness and
little things in between. Boo was our neighbour. He gave us two
soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck
pennies, and our lives. To Kill a Mockingbird (Shirisha T.)

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger
followed. The Gunslinger (Rob B.)
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit em, but
remember that its a sin to kill a mockingbird. To Kill a
Mockingbird (Kristy E.)

And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back

ceaselessly into the past. The Great Gatsby (Caitlyn S.)
I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but
still having form and melody.East of Eden (Jessica H.)
Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold. The Outsiders (Laura M.)
And in that moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain
came. Other Voices, Other Rooms (Madalaine B.)
Christmas wont be Christmas without any presents! Little
Women (Peggy C.)

When the day shall come that we do part, he said softly, and
turned to look at me, if my last words are not I love you
youll ken it was because I didnt have time. The Fiery
Cross (Sharon T.)

Hey, boo. To Kill a Mockingbird (Theresa M.)

I believe there are monsters born in the world to human
parents. East of Eden (JA R.)
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephants
faithful one-hundred percent! Horton Hatches the Egg (Carlie
B.)

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given

us. The Fellowship of the Ring (Mel F.)
Tomorrow Ill think of some way to get him back. After all,
tomorrow is another day. Gone with the Wind (Carla M.)
If this typewriter cant do it, then f@#$ it, it cant be done.
Still Life with Woodpecker(Dan E.)

Sometimes you have to keep on steppin. The Watsons Go to

Birmingham1963 (Mary D.)

There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom
I think well. Pride and Prejudice (Pauline S.)
Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is
nothing to remember except the story. The Things They
Carried (Kristy C.)

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in

its own way. Anna Karenina (JA R.)
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. SlaughterhouseFive (Heather R.)

Marley was dead as a doornail. A Christmas Carol (Colleen

D.)
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aurelio
Buenda was to remember that distant afternoon that his father
took him to discover ice. One Hundred Years of
Solitude (Janice S.)

What fresh hell is this? Jane Eyre (Katie D.)

Heart like shale. What you need is a good fracking.

MaddAddam (Anna L.)

Always. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Aimee U.)

Everythings profound when theres guns and zombies.
Sandman Slim (Caroline R.)

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby,
the world itself is the bad dream. The Bell Jar (Veronica F.)
For one last time, Miriam does as she is told. A Thousand
Splendid Suns (Barbara W.)

And thats all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of

drifting wood. Until weeach of us, individuallydecide to
become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood,
and those out there are no better. But you can be better. A
Lesson Before Dying (Emily K.)

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and
then all at once. The Fault in Our Stars (Jen P.)
Nobody run off with her, Roscoe said. She just run off with
herself, I guess.' Lonesome Dove (Cindy A.)
At the beginning of the summer I had lunch with my father, the
gangster, who was in town for the weekend to transact some of
his vague business. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Arthur M.)
What keeps you going isnt some fine destination but just the
road youre on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Animal Dreams (Liz M.)

He was dancing, dancing. He says hell never die. Blood

Meridian (Reed M.)

Were all damaged, somehow. A Great and Terrible

Beauty (Caitlin P.)

Hes more myself than I am. Wuthering Heights (Cortina W.)

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling
something. The Princess Bride, Betty D.
You know it dont take much intelligence to get yourself into a
nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of
one without removing one nail? The Glass
Menagerie (chelseyam)

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

Melissa Albert
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. I came upon it
suddenly; the approach masked by the unnatural growth of a
vast shrub that spread in all directions There was Manderley,
our Manderley, secretive and silent as it had always been, the
gray stone shining in the moonlight of my dream, the mullioned
windows reflecting the green lawns and terrace. Rebecca, by
Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca Jane Stokes
Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row. The
Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

Lauren Passell
124 was spiteful. Full of a babys venom. Beloved, by Toni
Morrison
Molly Schoemann-McCann

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great

blessing. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope, by Anthony
Trollope
Emma Chastain
[If] the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other
perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each
other to death. from The Hotel New Hampshire, by John Irving
Kat Rosenfield
Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. Its hot in the summer and cold
in the winter. Its round and wet and crowded. On the outside,
babies, youve got a hundred years here. Theres only one rule
that I know of, babiesGod damn it, youve got to be kind.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut

Nicole Hill
A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a
head. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
Dell Villa
Like many others before him, Abbott discovers, once married,
that marriage is a battleclinically, a negotiationover the
possession of the Bad Mood. Abbott Awaits, by Chris Bachelder
Kathryn Williams
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful what
we pretend to be. Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut
Ester Bloom