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  1. Pride and Prejudice

    I will not risk my happiness on a second proposal; I refuse you.
    Jane Austen

  2. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    To learn the secret of life, he turned to death and decay—what single light broke through that darkness?
    Mary Shelley

  3. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    I felt pity, then his appearance made my stomach turn—how do you choose kindness when the object repels you?
    Mary Shelley

  4. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    Names carved on stones with no bodies leave a hunger grief can't bury—those tablets mock consolation.
    Herman Melville

  5. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    Ahab’s fury bursts when his harpoon is lost—he vows to girdle the globe to slay the whale.
    Herman Melville

  6. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Who is the Potter, and who the Pot—can anything name the hand that shaped it?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

  7. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    You search outward for a lamp and hear that the self within you is blind—what light, if any, remains to guide your hand?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

  8. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    Make me a harpoon no fiend can part—he slams a pouch of horse nail-stubs on the anvil and dares the sea to resist it.
    Herman Melville

  9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    She keeps her eyes shut—one blink and Wonderland will dissolve into the ordinary farmyard.
    Lewis Carroll

  10. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    The port that promises shelter becomes the ship’s deadliest threat—Bulkington chooses the sea because land would kill the Pequod.
    Herman Melville

  11. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    The old, meagre moon is fainting from the sky—will the young crescent's return change anything for those below?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

  12. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    A rabbit pulls a watch from his waistcoat-pocket—so small an image it drags a girl after it into the unknown.
    Lewis Carroll

  13. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    She sobbed so violently Tom feared she might die; she clung to him and begged him not to despair—how will they find hope again?
    Mark Twain

  14. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    Smoke still curled from his pipe when dawn came—how could he sit unmoving through the whole night?
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  15. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    A freshly severed thumb lay on the sill—what disaster and cruelty left such ruins and ashes?
    Arthur Conan Doyle