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The Great Gatsby
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ~George Orwell
Jane Eyre
“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.” ~Charlotte Brontë
The Screwtape Letters
“Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.” ~C.S. Lewis
Lord of the Flies
“This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.” ~William Golding
Little Women
“She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.” ~Louisa May Alcott
The Grapes of Wrath
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” ~John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird
“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” ~Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” ~Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
“It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...” ~Jane Austen
Animal Farm
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ~George Orwell
The Count of Monte Cristo
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.” ~Alexandre Dumas
Gone With The Wind
“Scarlet O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm…” ~Margaret Mitchell