p.10 He walked fairly fast, and doggedly, without looking much about him, like a man trying to shorten the way with some interesting train of thought. He was tall, but a little round-shouldered, about thirty-five to forty years of age, and dressed with that particular kind of shabbiness which marks a member of the intelligentsia … Continue reading Out of the Silent Planet – C. S. Lewis
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ p.6 ‘Good-morning to you, Clarissa!’ said Hugh, rather extravagantly, for they had known each other since children. ‘Where are you off to?’ ‘I love walking in London,’ said Mrs. Dalloway. ‘Really, it’s better than walking in the country.’ They had just come up — unfortunately — to see doctors. Other people came to see … Continue reading Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
P.57 When Dawn’s pink fingers peeped shyly on the eastern sky And politely plucked the eyelids of Telemachus, Odysseus’s son blinked sleep from his eyes, and Rose and quickly dressed, transferring the shoulder strap of his sharp sword across his broad chest, and p. 68 And as his voice lifted in prayer, Athene, now in … Continue reading The Odyssey – Homer
First Sentence 1801.—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. p.47 He seemed a sullen, patient child; hardened, perhaps, to ill-treatment: he would stand Hindley’s blows without winking or shedding a tear, and my pinches moved him … Continue reading Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
p.3 Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: “Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.” That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday. p.41 He looked upset and told me that I never gave him a straight answer, that I had no ambition, and that that was … Continue reading The Stranger – Albert Camus
p.77 ‘I hope so,’ said Frodo. ‘But I hope that you may find some other better keeper soon. But in the meanwhile it seems that I am a danger, a danger to all that live near me. I cannot keep the Ring and stay here. I ought to leave Bag End, leave the Shire, … Continue reading The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
P.14 And as soon as the flush of dawn appeared in the heavens, they boarded the ship and launched her. Apollo sent them a favoring breeze, and they raised the mast, and they hoisted the white sail aloft, and it bellied out with the wind, and on either side of the ship's prow, the … Continue reading Iliad – Homer
Universe of Dahee 