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A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin"It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him."
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller"When summer comes to the North Woods, time slows down. And some days it stops altogether."
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."
Middlemarch by George Eliot"Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy."
The Odyssey by Homer"'So now get up.' Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard."
Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel"Polly Nichols, a Whitechapel whore, was profoundly grateful to gin.
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie"I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger."
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood"Under certain circumstance there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas PynchonLolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov"Mr Utterson the lawyer was a man of rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable."
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
Danse Macabre by Stephen KingThe Gunslinger by Stephen King
"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez"Located in Griffith Park, a four-thousand-acre stretch of land featuring two eighteen-hole golf courses, the Autry National Center, and the HOLLYWOOD sign, the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens is more of a run-down tourist attraction than a wildlife conservation facility.
Zoo by James Patterson“They’re out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.”
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey"Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York."
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith"Having divorced after a fifteen-year marriage, and having returned in a scattershot way to the dating scene, I naturally had limited faith in my judgment."
Does This Church Make Me Look Fat?: A Mennonite Finds Faith, Meets Mr. Right, and Solves Her Lady Problems by Rhoda Janzen"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."
I Am A Camera by Christopher IsherwoodD
"March unleashed a torrent of rainfall after an abnormally dry winter.
Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs"After a great deal of examining oceans, investigating rainstorms, and staring very hard at several drinking fountains, the scientists of the world developed a theory regarding how water is distributed around our planet, which thy have named 'the water cycle.'"
The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket"In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game."
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult"Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk."
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis"There comes a time in every girl's life when she realizes her father isn't perfect."
Truly, Madly by Heather Webber"The WPKX radio announcer hunched over the newsdesk in front of a dead microphone, anxiously fingering his script and waiting for the signal to go on the air."
The Cat Who Went Into the Closet by Lilian Jackson Braun"Every ocean takes its toll of men and ships, yet none devours them with the voracious appetite of the Pacific."
Pacific Vortex! by Clive Cussler"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of a fleshy balloon of a head."
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis“The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."
Oh, I know this one without looking it up! I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - good book and good movie too!"There are 158 footsteps between the bus stop and home, but it can stretch to 180 if you aren't in a hurry, like maybe if you're wearing platform shoes."
Me Before You byJojo Moyes(I'm going on memory; I read it a few months ago.)
When they write my obituary.
Jaws by Peter Benchley"Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were pround to dat that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling"The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry."
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy"From two thousand feet, where Claudette Sanders was taking a flying lesson, the town of Chester's Mill gleamed in the morning light like something freshly made and just set down."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..."Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it"
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell"I live in a lovely place. It's a small farm, just a few acres, but it is beautiful"
Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land by Kurt Timmermeister"That morning, I awaited my arrest in Our Lady of a Thousand Fans."
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'
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