Category: Quotes

  • Lord of the Flies Quotes – Page 3 | Just Great DataBase

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    Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder. The yelling ceased, and Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror. Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority. Lord of the Flies 6 Suddenly, pacing by the water, he was overcome with astonishment. He found himself understanding the wearisomeness…

  • Wuthering Heights Quotes

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    It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or…

  • To the Lighthouse Quotes – Page 2 | Just Great DataBase

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    There was silence. Then as if to refresh the power of destruction, the wind rose and the waves rose and through the house there lifted itself a sullen wave of doom which curled and crashed and the whole earth seemed ruining and washing away in water. To the Lighthouse 4 Perhaps it was better not…

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    Mr. Bennet’s expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 8 But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 8 What covers you…

  • The Old Man and the Sea Quotes

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    Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. The Old Man and the Sea 2429 But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated. The Old Man and the Sea…

  • Charles Dickens Quotes – Page 63 | Just Great DataBase

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    Having made, at least, this one hit, whatever it might prove to be worth, and no customers coming in to help him to any other, Mr. Barsad paid for what he had drunk, and took his leave: taking occasion to say, in a genteel manner, before he departed, that he looked forward to the pleasure…

  • To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes – Page 12 | Just Great DataBase

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    There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire. Atticus To Kill a Mockingbird 1 The rural children who could, usually brought clippings from what they called The…

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    She doesn’t make speeches anymore. She has become speechless. She stays in her home, but it doesn’t seem to agree with her. How furious she must be, now that she’s been taken at her word. Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 6 It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll…

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    I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are? William Golding Lord of the Flies 6 I’m accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder…

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    I know this messenger, guard,” said Mr. Lorry, getting down into the road—assisted from behind more swiftly than politely by the other two passengers, who immediately scrambled into the coach, shut the door, and pulled up the window. “He may come close; there’s nothing wrong. Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities 2 Scanty and…