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  1. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    She's captivated not by him, but by the irresistible fascination of his Christian name.
    Wilde, Oscar

  2. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    Yes — no: a tiny contradiction that turns politeness into a moral standoff.
    Wilde, Oscar

  3. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    He seizes the muffin-dish—why do muffins decide who's heartless?
    Wilde, Oscar

  4. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    I like you — yet knowing you're his ward makes me wish you were older and less dangerously alluring.
    Wilde, Oscar

  5. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    He calls it a 'great truth' that explains the abundance of bachelors—then withholds his consent.
    Wilde, Oscar

  6. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    Two women speak in perfect unison: your Christian names are still an insuperable barrier.
    Wilde, Oscar

  7. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    How absurd to speak of equality when she insists men are infinitely superior at self‑sacrifice.
    Wilde, Oscar

  8. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    I possess certificates for everything — even the German and the English varieties of measles.
    Wilde, Oscar

  9. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    I don't care for anyone in the world but you — and immediately: will you marry me?
    Wilde, Oscar

  10. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    She fell in love with a name: scandal and conversation made him irresistibly attractive.
    Wilde, Oscar

  11. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

    “Make love to the pretty ones, and to plain women, be faithful elsewhere” — a delightfully brutal rule of romance.
    Wilde, Oscar

  12. The Yellow Wallpaper

    The pattern runs off in slanting waves of optic horror—like wallowing seaweeds in full chase.
    Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

  13. The Yellow Wallpaper

    I creep around this great room as I please—and I won't go outside where everything is green instead of yellow.
    Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

  14. The Yellow Wallpaper

    He begs her, for their sake, never to let that idea enter her mind—calling it dangerously fascinating.
    Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

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

    A night of oyster-fishing turned deadly at a property line—who decides when hunger becomes a capital offense?
    John Chua