If you enjoy the classics then you will enjoy these lines from some of the best books ever written.
It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.
Toni Morrison, Beloved
I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
It was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
Albert Camus, The Stranger
A certain pride, a certain awe, withheld him from offering to God even one prayer at night, though he knew it was in God’s power to take away his life while he slept and hurl his soul hellward ere he could beg for mercy.
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
It is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.
Franz Kafka, The Trial
The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
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