1. “It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

” – Anna Karenina by Leo

Tolstoy
2. “My dear, I don’t give a damn.” – Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
3. “It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the
morning.” – The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
4. “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
5. “Maybe ever’ body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” – Of Mice And Men by John
Steinbeck
6. “Terror made me cruel.” – Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
7. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…Until you climb
inside of his skin and walk around in it.” – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
8. “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature
man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” – Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
9. “I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times.
But my world has become one of infinite possibilities.” – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
10. “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude,
without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” – The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel
Hawthorne
11. “I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need
no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.” –
Anthem by Ayn Rand
12. “Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let
us never despair.” – The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils
13. “‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You
have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.'” – Charlotte’s Web by
E.B. White
14. “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” – The Picture Of Dorian
Gray by Oscar Wilde
15. “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the
real universe is always one step beyond logic.” – Dune by Frank Herbert
16. “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” – Moby Dick by Herman
Melville
17. “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all
they can do is stare blankly.” – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will
respect myself.” – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
19. “Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock
stops does time come to life.” – The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner
20. “I remembered everything. I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig tree and
Marco’s diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon’s wall-eyed nurse and the broken
thermometers and the Negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin
and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a gray skull. Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow,
would numb and cover them. But they were part of me. They were my landscape.” – The Bell Jar by
Sylvia Plath
21. “She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.” – Their Eyes Were
Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
22. “The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill
with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life,
and rest in unvisited tombs.” – Middlemarch by George Eliot
23. “We need never be ashamed of our tears.” – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
24. “He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. Live, then, and be
happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the
future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope.'” – The Count of
Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
25. “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.” – Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman
Capote
26. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be
saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace
thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
– On The Road by Jack Kerouac
27. “There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we
love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.” – Slaughterhouse-
Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
28. “Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning.” – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
29. “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” – Romeo
and Juliet, William Shakespeare
30. “But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. –
Dubliners James Joyce
31. “Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.” – King
Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
32. “I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out
how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.” – The Sun Also Rises by Ernest
Hemingway
33. “Solitude sometimes is best society.” – Paradise Lost by John Milton
34. “I don’t like work–no man does–but I like what is in the work–the chance to find yourself. Your own
reality–for yourself not for others–what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere
show, and never can tell what it really means.” – Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
35. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – 1984 by George Orwell
36. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” – Animal Farm by George
Orwell
37. “I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can
all help you.” – The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
38. “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a
book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” –
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
39. “The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.” – Lord of the Flies by William Golding
40. “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).” – Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll