p.512 As he ran the cries came louder, but fainter now and desperately the horn was blowing. Fierce and shrill rose the yells of the Orcs, and suddenly the horn-calls ceased. Aragorn raced down the last slope, but before he could reach the hill’s foot, the sounds died away; and as he turned to the … Continue reading The Two Towers – J. R. R. Tolkien
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
p.232 ARGUMENT In the beginning, Ouranos and Gaia held sway over Heaven and Earth. And manifold children were born unto them, of whom were Cronos, and Okeanos, and the Titans, and the Giants. But Cronos cast down his father Ouranos, and ruled in his stead, until Zeus his son cast him down in his turn, … Continue reading Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus
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
Title: The Sorrows of Young Werther Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Publishing date: 1774 This novel is one of my favorites. I read the highlights I saved from it again to write this post and unsuccessfully shortened 40 pages of saved highlights to 28 pages. Going through it, I fell in love with it once … Continue reading The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
p. 31 I SLEPT LATE and spent the tail of the morning reading over my own notes on Palace etiquette and the observations on Gethenian psychology and manners made by my predecessors, the Investigators. I didn’t take in what I read, which didn’t matter since I knew it by heart and was reading merely to … Continue reading The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin
Universe of Dahee 