“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”
“Had we but world enough, and time”
“It was a pleasure to burn.”
“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.”
“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.”
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
“April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain."
“Call me Ishmael.”
3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.
“To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.”
“Now is the winter of our discontentAnswer
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.”
“‘To be born again,’ sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, ‘first you have to die.’”
"All this happened, more or less."
"I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a dumpster."
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that
station shall be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
"In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that
I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
"Happy families are all alike: each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died?"
"It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
