Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Powerful lines in classical literature

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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