1. “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
3. “I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and civilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.”
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain
4. “Beloved.”
“Beloved,” Toni Morrison
5. “It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
“The Catcher in the Rye,” J.D. Salinger
6. “And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!”
“A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens
7. “After all, tomorrow is another day.”
“Gone With the Wind,” Margaret Mitchell
8. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. “Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?”
“Invisible Man,” Ralph Ellison
10. “For an instant, everything was bathed in radiance.”
“March,” Geraldine Brooks
11. “Are there any questions?”
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” Margaret Atwood
12. “Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
“The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway
13. “She called in her soul to come and see.”
“Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston
14. “Vaya con Dios, my darklin’, and remember: vote early and vote often, don’t take any wooden nickels, and”—by now I was rolling about helplessly on the spareroom floor, scrunched up around my throbbing pain and bawling like a baby— “always leave ’em laughin’ as you say good-bye!”
Robert Coover, The Public Burning
15. ” It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan. “
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
16. “The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.”
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
17. “He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
18. “And then the storm of shit begins”
Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
19. ” Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
20. “We shall never be again as we were!”
Henry James, The Wings of the Dove
21. ” Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.”
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
22. “One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, “Poo-tee-weet?”
Kurt Vonnegut, SlaughterhouseFive
23. “Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never go back to Texas again.”
James Crumley, The Final Country
24. ” And he couldn’t do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here.”
Philip Roth, Sabbath’s Theater
25. “Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine.”
Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
26. “Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
27. “P.S. Sorry I forgot to give you the mayonnaise.”
Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
28. “A last note from your narrator: I am haunted by humans.”
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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