<p>of mice and men</p>
<p>*As often, most gracious ladies, as I bethink me, how compassionate you are by nature one and all, I do not disguise from myself that the present work must seem to you to have but a heavy and distressful prelude, in that it bears upon its very front what must needs revive the sorrowful memory of the late mortal pestilence, the course whereof was grievous not merely to eyewitnesses but to all who in any other wise had cognisance of it. *</p>
<p>The Decameron.</p>
<p>"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby</p>
<p>". . . All my pretty ones?
Did you say "all"? O hell-kite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?"</p>
<p>uhh, i think its Grendel, sounds familiar
"My children, I cannot see very clearly now, I had some mroe things to say, but it makes no difference. Think of me little. You are blessed creatures. I do not know what is the matter with me, I see a light. Come nearer. I am dying happy. Let me put my hands on your dear beloved heads."</p>
<p>nope, you're centuries off (hint, though I didn't think this one needed a hint. . . but as it happened you guessed a less commonly read work than this one actually is)</p>
<p>Macbeth</p>
<p>"...I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."</p>
<p>I censored the beginning because it'd be too easy to guess.</p>
<p>Walden, right?</p>
<p>"For Homer Wells, this was easy. Of use, to him, was all that an orphan was born to be." If nobody gets this, you all need to read this book!</p>
<p>the cider house rules</p>
<p>"Call me Stingo"...</p>
<p>sophie's choice?</p>
<p>* I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.
From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me.
The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
*</p>
<p>"Don't ever tell anybody anything.If you do, you start missing everybody."</p>
<p>Catcher in the Rye</p>
<p>"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."</p>
<p>Romeo and Juliet</p>
<p>"you can't just go off and leave a body"</p>
<p>(amazing book)</p>
<p>haha whoa did i just kill the book thread?</p>
<p>sorry, I don't remember reading it. . . hint? is it A Farewell to Arms?</p>
<p>ok heres a different quote from the same book:</p>
<p>"He didnt mean it. It happened before he was through. Shed stepped away from him to pick flowers, returned, and at the sound of her footsteps behind him, hed turned around before he was through. It was becoming a habitthis concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had."</p>
<p>its pretty hard, heres one more that may give it away:</p>
<p>"O Solomon dont leave me here
Cotton balls to choke me
O Solomon dont leave me here
Buckras arms to yoke me
Solomon done fly, Solomon done gone
Solomon cut across the sky, Solomon gone home."</p>