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The Chrysalids
by John Wyndham
“The Upper One sent the Tribulation to destroy them and remind them that existence means constant change.”
“... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it."
'...the more stupid they are, the more like everyone else they think everyone ought to be. And once they get afraid they become cruel and want to hurt people who are different – ”
“There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.” - Chapter 1
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
"'Do you ever read any of the books you burn?' He laughed. 'That's against the law!'
'Oh. Of course." - Part 1
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word `intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. - Part 1
This is happening to me. "What a dreadful surprise," said Beatty. "For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there are. But let's not talk about them, eh? - Part 3
"Remember the firemen are rarely necessary. The public stopped reading of its own accord." - Part 2
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
"Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with." - Chapter 38
"Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them." - Chapter 1
"Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions." - Chapter 3
"I cannot imagine myself living without some opinions, but I should wish to have good reasons for them, and a wise man...would help me to live according to them." - Chapter 4
Alice In Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
"Curiouser and curiouser!" - Chapter 2
"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, 'because I'm not myself, you see." - Chapter 5
"'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'" - Chapter 6
'I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,' said Alice a little timidly: 'but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.' - Chapter 10
The BFG
by Roald Dahl
“Dreams,” he said, “Is very mysterious things. They is floating around in the air like little wispy-misty bubbles. And all the time they is searching for sleeping people.”
"The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles."
″‘What I mean and what I say is two different things,’ the BFG announced rather grandly.”
“Two rights don’t equal a left.”
Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.” - Chapter 5
"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"- Chapter 21
"What a splendid day!" said Anne, drawing a long breath. "Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one."- Chapter 15
"Oh, this is the most tragical thing that has ever happened to me!" - Chapter 10
War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
“This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.” - Book I, Chapter 7
"By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain."- Book II, Chapter 8
"At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all." - Book I, Chapter 7
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own"
- Book I, Chapter 1
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." - Book I Chapter 1
"For the first time the Doctor felt, now, that his suffering was strength and power." - Book III Chapter 4
"Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; — the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!"
- Book III Chapter 5
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." - Book III Chapter 15
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
'You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.' - Chapter 23
'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.' - Chapter 4
'Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.'
- Chapter 6
'He could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.' - Chapter 10