"My mother died today or was it yesterday." - The Stranger
"All this happened, more or less." - Slaughterhouse Five
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." - Mrs. Dalloway
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano BuendÃa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." - One Hundred Years of Solitude
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." - The Catcher In The Rye.
"On an exceptionally hot evening in early July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge." - Crime and Punishment
"For a long time, I went to bed early." - In Search Of Lost Time
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” - Lolita
"Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting." - The sound and The fury
"As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." - The Metamorphosis
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." - A Tale of Two Cities
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” - 1984
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” - Anna Karenina
"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love." - Love in the Time of Cholera
"I am an invisible man." - Invisible Man
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." - Ulysses
"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress." - Middlemarch
"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains." - A Farewell to Arms
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” - Pride and Prejudice
“You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.” - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
