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  1. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    After a rapid succession of calamities, the dead calm that follows—depriving the soul of both hope and fear—becomes the cruelest torment.
    Mary Shelley

  2. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    He claims beauty outranks goodness—yet insists goodness beats ugliness. Which belief will govern his life?
    Oscar Wilde

  3. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    A rose drifts down the river and a ruby cup waits—will you lift it before the angel offers a darker draught?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

  4. Shakespeare's Sonnets

    You make me swear the ugly is beautiful—why does your worst outshine your best?
    William Shakespeare

  5. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    I paused to weigh his words: a being who hides in glacier caves and threatens whole communities—what did justice demand I do?
    Mary Shelley

  6. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    She entered, saw the corpse, and cried that she had murdered her darling infant—guilt and grief ripped the household open.
    Mary Shelley

  7. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    The ocean makes you unbearably alone; men bathing in a dead calm cling to the ship as if to a lifeline.
    Herman Melville

  8. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Spring vanishes with the rose—where did the nightingale's song fly, and who will find it?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

  9. The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Moderation is fatal—sometimes 'enough' feels like a meal, while excess feels like a feast. Why does more seduce?
    Oscar Wilde

  10. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    You saw the room but missed the seventeen steps—how could he insist he'd both seen and truly observed them?
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  11. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    Nothing feels stranger than the instant you cross into the hunted whale’s churned circle.
    Herman Melville

  12. Treasure Island

    Curiosity wins over fear—he creeps back and sees a blind beggar leading men along the road; whose voice betrayed them?
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  13. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    God has laid but one hand on you; both his hands press upon me—am I Jonah, swallowed and sent back to preach to a wicked world?
    Herman Melville

  14. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    I felt like an unarmed mariner rescued from pirates—only to become a hunted, lonely fugitive in a crowded city.
    John Chua

  15. Shakespeare's Sonnets

    I keep writing the same love—why does repetition feel like a failure of invention?
    William Shakespeare