994 Points
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
856 Points
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth."
606 Points
"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm, as the Tarleton twins were."
562 Points
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined..."
540 Points
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
519 Points
"Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not..."
505 Points
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (C. Garnett, 1946) and (J. Carmichael, 1960)All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy..."
417 Points
348 Points
"“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug."
333 Points
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."