The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

At last he was satisfied that time had ceased and eternity begun;

All the “rot” they contained about ventilation, and how to go to bed, and how to get up, and what to eat, and what to drink, and how much exercise to take, and what frame of mind to keep one's self in, and what sort of clothing to wear, was all gospel to her, and she never observed that her health journals of the current month customarily upset everything they had recommended the month before.

Aunt Polly is so me, Mark Twain understood fast fashion and trends before they even started.

when they found out what they had driven him to, perhaps they would be sorry;

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink hoping the other person will suffer.

was plain that she was tired of him and wished him to go; if she felt that way, there was nothing for him to do but succumb; he hoped she would be happy, and never regret having driven her poor boy out into the unfeeling world to suffer and die.

Tunnel-vision at it's finest

there were some conspicuous advantages about a life of crime, and so he consented to be a pirate.

Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep—but an intruder came, now, that would not “down.” It was conscience.

Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep.

They felt like heroes in an instant. Here was a gorgeous triumph; they were missed; they were mourned; hearts were breaking on their account; tears were being shed;

the departed were the talk of the whole town, and the envy of all the boys, as far as this dazzling notoriety was concerned.

Misfortune is rare and therefore sought after

True, he had the manifest sympathy of the house—but he had the house's silence, too, which was even worse than its sympathy.

spelling fight.

So much cooler than spelling bee

tendency to lug in by the ears particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn entirely out;

If everyone does it, it loses it's meaning

you will find that the sermon of the most frivolous and the least religious girl in the school is always the longest and the most relentlessly pious.

earthly pleasures cannot satisfy the longings of the soul!

The Cadets paraded in a style calculated to kill the late member with envy.

Bro, not everything is about you

for he had not the shadow of a doubt that all this hubbub was about him.

TOM WAS a glittering hero once more—the pet of the old, the envy of the young.

the old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot,

The Welshman said Huck had good spots in him, and the widow said: “You can depend on it. That's the Lord's mark. He don't leave it off. He never does. Puts it somewhere on every creature that comes from His hands.”

For a little while, hope made a show of reviving—not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure.

the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.

Huck Finn is a free soul