Question | Answer |
"I was born with water on the brain." | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
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"The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock." | Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
| "In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since." | The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
| "The marvelous thing is that it's painless," he said. "That's how you know when it starts." | The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway
| "I celebrate myself/And what I assume you shall assume/For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. | "Song of Myself", Walt Whitman
| "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns." | The Odyssey, Homer
| "Sing, goddess, the anger of Achilles, the anger which caused so much sorrow to the Greeks." | The Iliad, Homer
| "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home." | The Outsiders, SE Hinton
| "Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul./And sings the tune - without the words-/and never stops at all. | Feathers, Jacqueline Woodward (the poem is by Emily Dickinson)
| "Who's there?" | Hamlet, William Shakespeare
| "My own flesh and blood, dear sister, dear Ismene, how many griefs our father handed down!" | Antigone, Sophocles
| "Gregory, on my word we will not carry coals." | Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
| "When I wake up the other side of the bed is cold." | The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
| "In sooth, I know not why I am so sad." | The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
| "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." | 1984, George Orwell
| "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the potholes." | Animal Farm, George Orwell |