Ever read a line in a book which essentially sums up the entire story? Well, this is what these lines do. The very best lines from the very best books, curated by the Readplot review team.
Ask no questions and you’ll be told no lies.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
I will wear him In my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal—this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
“Do you know—I hardly remembered you?”
“Hardly remembered me?”
“I mean: how shall I explain? I—it’s always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.”
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth. Virgil, The Aeneid
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