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75 Iconic Quotes From Classic Books You Read In High School

I wish I'd done everything on the earth with you. 
Kirsten Corley
October 20, 2016
“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty…you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”
— J. D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
Tagged: Timeless Love Quotes, Love, Romantic Novels
“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Tagged: Literature Quotes, Lit quotes, Literature
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Literature Quotes, Literary Quotes, Literature
“Stay Gold, PonyBoy ”
— S.E Hinton, The Outsiders
Tagged: Literature Quotes, Best Literary Quotes
“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
— Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Tagged: Lies, Truth, Reality
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Selfie Captions, Beware, Fearless, Power, strength, Selfie Captions
“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Tagged: Money, poor, helpful
“It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Tagged: Two-Faced, Fake Friends, Pretend Friends, Cowardice, character
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
— Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
Tagged: Banned Books
“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Tagged: Jane Austen, romance, Love, Falling In Love, heart
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
— George Orwell, 1984 (Signet Classics)
Tagged: Secrets, Hidden, Lies
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
— George Orwell, 1984 (Signet Classics)
Tagged: Reality, Mind, humanity
“Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”
— George Orwell, Animal Farm, 50th Anniversary Edition
Tagged: Life, Misery, Work, Time, short
“But I tried, didn’t I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.”
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Tagged: Try, Effort