Which one keeps calling?

Wuthering Heights

I kept you from Linton not for my pride but because Heathcliff would delight in ruining you—what would have happened if I had not interfered?

Wuthering Heights

The dog pricks its ears—Heathcliff strides in with audacity and, within moments, has Catherine in his arms.

A Christmas Carol

Scrooge sees Marley's face in a knocker; what invisible logic turned brass into mourning?

A Christmas Carol

Once we promised happiness as one; now we are two and it brings misery—what would free you from that weight?

A Christmas Carol

If what bound us had never been, would you still seek me out? —how do you answer a love that demands proof?

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The spinning-wheel's hum made him wish he was dead—how can one sound be the loneliest thing?

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

Remorse is memory awake at your door—past acts return like a summoned company you cannot dismiss.

Little Women

‘Use wealth while you live,’ Laurie declared—promising to spend pleasure as charity and stirring the question of sincerity.

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

Imprisonment often lives inside you—freeing the body can leave a bolder soul still bound.

Little Women

Jo upsets the cake; laughter bursts in as cousins flood the room—how a small mess becomes proof of belonging.

Little Women

She runs a hospital for broken dolls, nursing away what everyone else discards—why does tenderness cling to the ugly things?

Little Women

“It’s my dreadful temper!” Jo cried—an inward battle that turns every small kindness into a test.

Little Women

He asks them to 'conquer themselves' during a long year apart—who will truly change before he returns?

Little Women

I used to think I couldn't let you go—but now say death can't part us; how do you keep loving someone through farewell?

Little Women

Called 'wicked', she lashes out and retreats to the garret to finish the fight alone—what pushed Jo past restraint?