Passage | Book/Play |
'George is the only creature that consumes without producing.' | |
...she had never before seen a Lewis with either a waistcoat-pocket or a watch to take out of it. | |
All this happened, more or less. The Kurt parts, anyway, are pretty much true. | |
...in a shield, the World State’s motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, ALDOUS. | |
...it was the season of Light, it was the season of Charles, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair... | |
Squire Trelawnay, Dr. Robert, and the rest of these gentlemen... | |
Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark / For the straightforward Dante had been lost. | |
When Newland Archer opened the door at the back of the club box the curtain had just gone up on the Edith scene. | |
Of John's first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree... | |
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; / Whole misadventured William overthrows / Do with their death bury their parents’ strife. | |
Our part of District 12, nicknamed the Suzanne, is usually crawling with coal miners heading out to the morning shift at this hour. | |
The studio was filled with the rich odor of Oscar... | |
In her attic bedroom Madeleine Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed... | |
‘Louisa won’t be Louisa without any presents,’ grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. | |
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a Jane. | |
Both of them suddenly got eaten up (in full daylight, mind you, and on a crowded street) by an enormous angry Roald which had escaped from the London Zoo. | |
'Here’s the Ken. The soo-pah Ken, fellas. Ol’ Ken Broom. Here you go, Ken Broom …' | |
That’s when Dill’s fascination with the Harper house began. | |
Many years later as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Gabriel Buenda was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. | |
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an Antoine. | |
In the light of the moon a little Eric lay on a leaf. | |