If you love classical literature then you will love these powerful lines from great reads, curated by the Talekey review team.
The Children Of Men
Author: P.D. James
Year: 1992
“We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.”
Revolutionary Road
Author: Richard Yates
Year: 1961
"No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying."
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Year: 1937
"She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her."
Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
Year: 1890
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley
Year: 1818
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
Valis
Author: Philip K. Dick
Year: 1981
"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
The Witches
Author: Roald Dahl
Year: 1983
"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you."
Birdsong
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Year: 1993
"I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine."
Stardust
Author: Neil Gaiman
Year: 1999
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
The Price Of Salt
Author: Patricia Highsmith
Year: 1952
“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”
The Good Soldier
Author: Ford Madox Ford
Year: 1915
"Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing."
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