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  1. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    Abandoned and furious, he channels his rage into destruction—filling the cottage with combustibles and waiting for the moon to fall.
    Mary Shelley

  2. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    An act of mercy costs him a wound; from that pain a vow of eternal hatred is born—how does kindness seed such rage?
    Mary Shelley

  3. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    I know a man who took three hundred and fifty whales—more honourable to me than a captain who boasted of captured cities.
    Herman Melville

  4. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    So I have murdered Sibyl Vane, he whispers—yet the roses are still lovely and the birds still sing.
    Oscar Wilde

  5. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries: 'Fools—your reward is neither here nor there.'
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

  6. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    A single threat hangs over him: on his wedding night a dæmon promised to destroy him—will that night end him or free him?
    Mary Shelley

  7. Treasure Island

    Tomorrow I start for Bristol—he counts weeks and riches as if a grand voyage were already won, while danger waits uninvited.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  8. Pride and Prejudice

    I decided within a month that you were the last man I'd ever marry—what made me so certain so soon?
    Jane Austen

  9. The Republic

    He insists all pleasures are the same—if pleasure is flattened, what part of the soul refuses to be seen?
    Plato

  10. Pride and Prejudice

    What are men to rocks and mountains?—could travel really revive us from disappointment?
    Jane Austen

  11. Treasure Island

    A clacking cry for pieces of eight grinds on like a tiny mill—who keeps shouting and why won't it stop?
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  12. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    A coffin life-buoy shoots up from a wheeling black bubble and carries him for a day—how does a man drift between death and rescue?
    Herman Melville

  13. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    I demand to know if I'll sleep beside a madman—what is this harpooneer the landlord fears and yet insists I share a bed with?
    Herman Melville

  14. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    A lantern, a butcher's cleaver, and a moonlit garden thirty feet below—would you jump?
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  15. Pride and Prejudice

    She couldn't think of anything else: had Bingley really loved Jane, or had others decided for him?
    Jane Austen