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  1. A Room with a View

    There is only one perfect view, he says—the sky overhead; every earthly view a bungled copy.
    E. M. Forster

  2. A Room with a View

    There is a scene: the hero and heroine make love on a hillside, Florence pale in the distance.
    E. M. Forster

  3. A Room with a View

    I was going to say No—then I realised I minded, and answered Yes.
    E. M. Forster

  4. A Room with a View

    A glorious Sunday—beeches and oaks gilded, black pines like battalions—so what disaster could begin beneath such peace?
    E. M. Forster

  5. A Room with a View

    She admitted she'd done wrong—so why tell a friend if not to be forgiven or to hide something worse?
    E. M. Forster

  6. A Room with a View

    The curtains flew aside and light found Lucy on a terrace, as if she sat on a green magic carpet—what is she lifted above or toward?
    E. M. Forster

  7. A Room with a View

    A crowd rose and hid him; the palace seemed to tilt and fall—what could make her world go dim in a single instant?
    E. M. Forster

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

    He forbade her night outings and warned he must never catch her with Ned—what he feared in her beauty isn't spoken aloud.
    John Chua

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

    He stood commanding and eloquent—yet the law treated that gifted man as mere property.
    John Chua

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

    A white face beamed with kindly emotion; the sight sent a sudden rapture through me and brightened my path.
    John Chua

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

    I never knew my own age; slaves were kept ignorant of birthdays as if to erase their lives.
    John Chua

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

    Slaves sang most when they were most unhappy; their songs were the sorrows of the heart, not proofs of contentment.
    John Chua

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

    Religion in the South became a cover for the most horrid crimes, a sanctifying cloak for cruelty and fraud.
    John Chua

  14. Meditations

    Your ordinary thoughts dye your soul—what color are you soaking your mind in every day?
    Marcus Aurelius

  15. The Divine Comedy

    Birds nest in carved sleeves while dragons leer from gargoyles—what anguish carved such flowering stone?
    Dante Alighieri