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  1. The Odyssey

    He cannot resist naming himself the blinder of the Cyclops—will that boast be triumph or fatal error?
    Homer

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

    They stripped Aunt Hester to the waist, tied her by a hook, and beat her until blood fell.
    John Chua

  3. The Odyssey

    Scylla plucks men like fish from the rocks—what choice keeps a ship when doom waits on both sides?
    Homer

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

    The horn sounded for breakfast—and I watched four whites ride up with two bound men.
    John Chua

  5. The Odyssey

    He chose a rugged island over two goddesses—because nothing is dearer than home and parents.
    Homer

  6. The Odyssey

    Not a god but your father—his revealed identity turns their reverence into a private reckoning.
    Homer

  7. Leaves of Grass

    I feared my love would be wasted; I loved ardently and received no return—what, then, was the true payment?
    Walt Whitman

  8. Leaves of Grass

    Where citizens are the head and rulers act only as paid agents—what would a city run by its people actually look like?
    Walt Whitman

  9. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    Give me a companion as hideous as myself, he pleads—will mercy produce peace or double the danger?
    Mary Shelley

  10. The Republic

    We will garland the clever imitator and send him away—why praise the poet you refuse to keep?
    Plato

  11. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    What if hunger, not God, first invented the idea of hell?
    Herman Melville

  12. The Count of Monte Cristo

    He says a deadly weight crushes him and calls down an avenging God—when faith replaces proof, what becomes of reason?
    Alexandre Dumas (père); Auguste Maquet

  13. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

    Nothing wounds like seeing a brave man's inner dignity stripped bare.
    Herman Melville

  14. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    I confessed a lie to save my soul, and now the lie is heavier than all my sins — how will I ever forgive myself?
    Mary Shelley

  15. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

    Before we sink into dust, spend what we yet may—what will you squander when everything ends?
    Omar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)