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“One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And
sixty cents of it was in pennies.”
O’Henry, The Gift Of The Magi
Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall,
taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen.”
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
“The pretty little Swiss town of
Johanna Spyri, Heidi
“Marley was dead, to begin with.”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments,
and gray steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods
and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the
door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron
spikes.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet
Letter
For many days we had been tempest-tossed. Six times
had the darkness closed over a wild and terrific scene, and returning
light as often brought but renewed distress, for the raging storm
increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost.
Johann Wyss, The Swiss Family
Robinson
“High atop the steps of the Great Pyramid of Giza a
young women laughed and called down to him. “Robert, hurry up! I knew I
should have married a younger man!” Her smile was magic.”
Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
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Charles Dickens,
Bleak House
“3 May. Bisritz – Left Munich at 8:35pm on 1st
May, arriving at
Bram Stoker, Dracula
“The mental features discoursed of as the analytical,
are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders In The Rue
Morgue
“True! - nervous - very,
very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say
that I am mad?”
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
“1801-I have just returned from a visit to my
landlord-the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with.”
Emily Bronte,
“When the stage slowed to allow the horses to walk up
the long grade, Mary Brayden was the only passenger awake.”
Louis L’Amour, The Cherokee Trail
“When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs
were eating a rattlesnake – not a very big one.
Larry McMurty, Lonesome Dove
“A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and
grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small
babies or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby
Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House
on the Prairie
“The senior partner studied the resume for the
hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y.
McDeere, at least not on paper.”
John Grisham, The Firm
“Kino awakened in the near dark.
The stars still shone and the day had drawn only a pale wash of
light in the lower sky to the east.”
John Steinbeck, The
“This story begins within the walls of a castle, with
the birth of a mouse. A small mouse. The last mouse born to his parents
and the only one of his litter to be born alive.”
Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of
Despereaux
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…….”
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two
Cities
“Dorothy lived in the midst of the great
L. Frank Baum,
The Wizard of Oz
“Once there was a tree… and she loved a little boy.”
Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump,
bump, bump, on the back of his head…..”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“I’d been waiting for the vampire for years when he
walked into the bar.”
Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark
“The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief
of one kind and another……”
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild
Things Are
“Mr. and Mrs. Brown had one child. They called him Leroy, and so did his teachers.” Donald Sobal, Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective
“In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a
leaf.”
Eric Carle, The Very Hungry
Caterpillar
“Until he was four years old, James Henry Trotter had
a happy life. He lived
peacefully with his mother and father in a beautiful house beside the sea.
Roald Dahl, James and the Giant
Peach
“When I was very young and the urge to be somewhere
else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure
this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was
middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my
fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job.”
John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley
in Search of
From our "Name that Founder" Edition:
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have
liberty to study mathematics and philosophy." John Adams
“It was a cold bright day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind…..”
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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