Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. - David Copperfield (Dickens)
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Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. - Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - Pride and Prejudice (Austin)
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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. - Rebecca (Du Maurier)
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Tell of the storm-tossed man, O Muse, who wandered long after he sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. - The Odyssey (Homer)
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By the false azure in the windowpain;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff--and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. - Pale Fire (Nabokov)
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"Life is very long..." T.S. Eliot. I mean...he's given credit for it because he bothered to write it down. He's not the first person to say it...certainly not the first person to think it. Feel it. But he wrote the words on a sheet of paper and signed it and the four-eyed prick was a genius...so if you say it, you have to say his name after it. "Life is very long": T.S. Elliot. - August Osage County (Letts)
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Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. - Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
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"The success of the marriage invariably depends on the woman," Mrs. Greenway said. - Terms of Endearment (McMurtry)
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One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. - Metamorphosis (Kafka)
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I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all my titles) who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as "Claudius the Idiot," or "That Claudius," or "Claudius the Stammerer," or "Clau-Clau-Claudius" or at best as "Poor Uncle Claudius," am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing year by year until I reach the fateful point of change where, some eight years ago, at the age of fifty-one, I suddenly found myself caught in what I may call the "golden predicament" from which I have never since become disentangled. - I, Claudius (Graves)
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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. - One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez)
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From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that--a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them. - Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner)
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Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. - Richard III (Shakespeare)
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Once upon a time... - Fairytales (Grimms, etc.)
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