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My Ántonia - Willa Cather

1. "Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."


2. "She had that something which fires the imagination, could not be forgotten, would not be dismissed from thought."


3. "Antonia’s laughter was like the sunlight on the Nebraska plains."


4. "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."


5. "The world was left behind, and we were out in the country once more."


6. "There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made."


7. "I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more."


8. "People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find."


9. "The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers."





The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

1. "We’re the people – we go on."


2. "How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children?"


3. "A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone."


4. "In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."


5. "And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."


6. "I’ll be ever’where—wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there."


7. "There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize."


8. "The quality of owning freezes you forever in 'I,' and cuts you off forever from the 'we.'"


9. "You’re bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff."


10. "Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten."



The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

1. "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry."


2. "We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay."


3. "Sometimes you say things that sound like the dead masters."


4. "Until then, laughter had been the privilege of man, a sign of his rationality."


5. "To kill a man is to deprive him of life, and to deprive him of life is to deprive him of his reason, his future, his laughter."


6. "There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain."


7. "The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt."


8. "The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them."


9. "Truth, it seems, is always an abyss. How can we manage to set ourselves over an abyss without falling in?"


10. "The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."