4.40 avg rating — 11,249 ratings

"The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."

3.88 avg rating — 1,013,352 ratings

"It is a far better thing I do than I have ever done. It is a far better rest I go to than I have ever known."

3.93 avg rating — 5,924,774 ratings

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

4.29 avg rating — 170,521 ratings

"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted nevermore."

3.38 avg rating — 180,410 ratings

"We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped."

3.90 avg rating — 2,059,905 ratings

"I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

3.97 avg rating — 3,063 ratings

"Heaven had taken to itself three noble souls."

3.99 avg rating — 2,079,818 ratings

"Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east. …"

3.91 avg rating — 664,771 ratings

"The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams about the Dark Tower, to which he would someday come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle."

3.91 avg rating — 1,893,392 ratings

"He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance."

4.06 avg rating — 378,786 ratings

"I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger…a Man on the Move, and just sick enough to be totally confident."

3.97 avg rating — 1,286,513 ratings

"But they never learned what it was that Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which had to do, for there was a gust of wind, and they were gone."

4.08 avg rating — 700,795 ratings

""Darling," it said."

4.02 avg rating — 4,560,518 ratings

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

4.26 avg rating — 6,894,242 ratings

"He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."

4.10 avg rating — 1,484,721 ratings

"One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, "Poo-tee-weet?""

4.33 avg rating — 1,025,173 ratings

""My dearest," said Valentine, "has the count not just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words - "wait" and "hope"?'"

4.02 avg rating — 1,478,473 ratings

"Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake."

3.43 avg rating — 559,043 ratings

"The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness."

3.57 avg rating — 616,425 ratings

"It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan."

3.21 avg rating — 4,343 ratings

"The circles rapidly grow small - we are plunging madly within the grasp of the whirlpool - and amid a roaring, and a bellowing, and thundering of ocean and of tempest, the ship is quivering - oh God! and - going down!"

3.57 avg rating — 272,319 ratings

"And the music of the pearl drifted to a whisper and disappeared."

3.27 avg rating — 3,192 ratings

"And as I writhe in my guilty agony, frantic to save the city whose peril every moment grows, and vainly striving to shake off this unnatural dream of a house of stone and brick south of a sinister swamp and a cemetery on a low hillock; the Pole Star, evil and monstrous, leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey."

3.76 avg rating — 301,855 ratings

""All that is very well," answered Candide, "But let us cultivate our garden.""

3.86 avg rating — 263,956 ratings

"What if it's started again? What if it's working it's way east, finishing the job? Saving me for last? His single minded purpose. His unending fury."

3.85 avg rating — 541,048 ratings

"Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts or start upright in bed with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: “Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!”"

4.04 avg rating — 110,060 ratings

""It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

4.06 avg rating — 280,089 ratings

"Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father’s voice: “Make me young, make me young, make me young!”"

3.89 avg rating — 276,815 ratings

"And to the question asked by Ecclesiastes three thousand years ago, “That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?” two men alone of all now living have the right to give an answer—-CAPTAIN NEMO AND MYSELF."

4.02 avg rating — 218,919 ratings

"When those who found this skeleton attempted to disengage it from that which it held in its grasp, it crumbled to dust. "

3.99 avg rating — 887,343 ratings

"The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off."

4.24 avg rating — 290,630 ratings

"The sun stained the east a dusky rose, and Roland, no longer the last gunslinger but one of the last three, slept and dreamed his angry dreams through which there ran only that one soothing blue thread: there I will sing all their names!"

3.98 avg rating — 71,458 ratings

"Everything had gone right with me since he had died, but how I wished there existed someone to whom I could say that I was sorry."

4.17 avg rating — 406,018 ratings

"I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital importance of being Earnest."

4.10 avg rating — 932,846 ratings

"“I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I shall still go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for it; I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying; but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.”"

3.91 avg rating — 305,619 ratings

"I shall feel proud and satisfied to have been the first author to enjoy the full fruit of his writings, as I desired, because my only desire has been to make men hate those false, absurd histories in books of chivalry, which thanks to the exploits of my real Don Quixote are even now tottering, and without any doubt will soon tumble to the ground. Farewell."

4.54 avg rating — 731,428 ratings

""Well, I'm back," he said."

3.78 avg rating — 5,622 ratings

""In me didst thou exist - and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.""

4.21 avg rating — 326,726 ratings

"This much, at least, I’ve figured out, I know this much is true."

3.82 avg rating — 354,142 ratings

"After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain."

3.90 avg rating — 1,431,691 ratings

"And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the first to get up and stretch out her young body."

4.35 avg rating — 836,138 ratings

"Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again."

3.88 avg rating — 167,685 ratings

"The explosion was tremendous, lighting up the night like the wrath of God, and it rained fire twenty blocks away."

4.58 avg rating — 3,660,852 ratings

"His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux, but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come, whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione."

3.74 avg rating — 2,824,871 ratings

"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

3.80 avg rating — 141,449 ratings

"Will knew then, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that Marcus would be OK."

4.09 avg rating — 940,422 ratings

"And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, every one!"

4.21 avg rating — 844,397 ratings

"The thing came to pass simply, of itself, as the night comes when day is gone."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 512,539 ratings

"And oh, Aunt Em! I’m so glad to be at home again!"

3.31 avg rating — 291,191 ratings

"She went around the car, and as she slipped under the steering wheel, this time she was careful not to bump her head."

3.75 avg rating — 7,870 ratings

"But I could not force it open; and in my tremor, it slipped from my hands, and fell heavily, and burst into pieces; and from it, with a rattling sound, there rolled out some instruments of dental surgery, intermingled with thirty-two small, white and ivory-looking substances that were scattered to and fro about the floor."

4.27 avg rating — 1,618,561 ratings

"When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island. "

3.97 avg rating — 62,773 ratings

"He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.
"

4.36 avg rating — 4,161,204 ratings

"“Katniss, there is no District Twelve.”"

4.30 avg rating — 4,460,298 ratings

"“Thank goodness!” said Bilbo laughing, and handed him the tobacco-jar."

4.12 avg rating — 3,725,128 ratings

"But there are much worse games to play."

4.62 avg rating — 4,113,708 ratings

"The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."

4.29 avg rating — 1,083,044 ratings

"But that is the beginning of a new story - the story of the gradual renewal of a man, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a knew unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended."

4.11 avg rating — 521,037 ratings

"Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come."

4.22 avg rating — 2,017,896 ratings

"“We’ll take in a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.”"

4.47 avg rating — 11,428,595 ratings

"“‘I’m going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer… .’”"

4.14 avg rating — 1,606,193 ratings

"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."

3.99 avg rating — 318,487 ratings

"He could feel his heart beating against the pine needle floor of the forest."

4.39 avg rating — 122,194 ratings

"Yes, said Edward, yes, yes, yes. It's me."

4.30 avg rating — 4,810,748 ratings

"With the Gardiners, they were always on the most intimate terms. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them."

4.20 avg rating — 202,148 ratings

""Yes," he said. "We go." And then he said again, all the affirmation necessary in this dark place. "Yes.""

3.83 avg rating — 1,337,698 ratings

"But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before."

4.35 avg rating — 9,924,677 ratings

"I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go."

4.40 avg rating — 464,908 ratings

"Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone."

3.94 avg rating — 578,981 ratings

"Give me your hands if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends."

3.86 avg rating — 182,809 ratings

"They, hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow; Through Eden took their solitary way."

4.57 avg rating — 4,198,606 ratings

"As Hagrid had said, what would come, would come … and he would have to meet it when it did."

3.87 avg rating — 15,540 ratings

"The Pennsylvania road rushed us to New York without missing schedule time ten minutes anywhere on the route; and there ended one of the most enjoyable five-thousand-mile journeys I have ever had the good fortune to make."

4.58 avg rating — 4,848,573 ratings

"And, grinning broadly at the look of horror on Uncle Vernon’s face, Harry set off toward the station exit, Hedwig rattling along in front of him, for what looked like a much better summer than the last."

3.84 avg rating — 18,143 ratings

"The street lamp flickering opposite shown on a quiet and deserted road."

3.70 avg rating — 3,204,218 ratings

"He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance."

3.80 avg rating — 321,822 ratings

"Its bones, so far as I know, still remain there with the bones of those small animals unlucky enough to have tumbled into that place before it."

3.85 avg rating — 89,019 ratings

"While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened–there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind–the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight–my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder–there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters–and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the “House of Usher.”"

4.10 avg rating — 661,246 ratings

"In the small clearing overlooking the power lines, the fire in the brush began to burn more strongly, urged by the autumn wind that blew from the west."

4.11 avg rating — 26,435 ratings

"Pea Eye shut the door of the oat bin, to keep out mice and snakes, and, at moments nervous, at moments relieved - at least she had called him honey - he followed his wife back to their house."

4.08 avg rating — 159,419 ratings

"So I awoke, and behold it was a dream."

3.95 avg rating — 282,796 ratings

"Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?"

3.81 avg rating — 1,314,858 ratings

"The old man was dreaming about the lions."

3.75 avg rating — 413,000 ratings

"He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger."

4.20 avg rating — 5,472,270 ratings

"He loved Big Brother."

4.50 avg rating — 3,799,260 ratings

"Instead he smiled, raised a hand in farewell, turned around, and led the way out of the station toward the sunlit street, with Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley hurrying along in his wake."

4.28 avg rating — 1,709,377 ratings

"Wendy sat down on Danny's other side and the three of them sat on the end of the dock in the afternoon sun."

3.87 avg rating — 10,282 ratings

"The moral of it is this: If
you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by
faithful diligence; but if you are “no account,” go away from
home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to
or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them—if the people you go among suffer by the operation."

3.83 avg rating — 666,049 ratings

"Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end."

4.43 avg rating — 4,499,608 ratings

"And together they walked back through the gateway to the Muggle world."

3.92 avg rating — 1,019,760 ratings

"Some day it may seem worth while to take up the story of the younger ones again and see what sort of men and women they turned out to be; therefore it will be wisest not to reveal any of that part of their lives at present."

3.95 avg rating — 61,367 ratings

"He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided."

3.95 avg rating — 27,207 ratings

"“I’m better already, my darling,” said he."

3.78 avg rating — 154,775 ratings

"CHICAGO WILL BE OURS!"

3.79 avg rating — 494,471 ratings

"“Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”"

3.80 avg rating — 3,897,907 ratings

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."