SOME IMPORTANT LINES FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE

SOME IMPORTANT LINES FROM ENGLISH LITERATURE

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

✅ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

💠 “In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”

✅ Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

💠 “She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”

✅ J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew”

💠 “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.”

✅ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

💠 “Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”

✅ Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

💠 “Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

✅ Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

💠 “What are men to rocks and mountains?”

✅ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

💠 “‘Dear God, she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’”

✅ Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

💠 “The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

✅ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

💠 “A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”

✅ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

💠 “As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were the following: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.”

✅ Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

💠 “If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”

✅ W. H. Auden, “The More Loving One”

💠 “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

✅ John Steinbeck, East of Eden

💠 “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

✅ William Shakespeare, Hamlet

💠 “America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.”

✅ Allen Ginsburg, “America”

💠 “It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

✅ W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

💠 “At the still point, there the dance is.”

✅ T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”

💠 “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

✅ Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

💠 “In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.”

✅ Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

💠 “The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.”

✅ Toni Morrison, Beloved

💠 “How wild it was, to let it be.”

✅ Cheryl Strayed, Wild

💠 “Do I dare / Disturb the universe?”

✅ T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

💠 “She was lost in her longing to understand.”

✅ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera.