'Projecting over a narrow mountain-path there hangs an old feudal castle.'
- Andersen's Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen

'They were fresh now as a succession of April showers and gleams, followed by a lovely spring morning, could make them: the sun was just entering the dappled east, and his light illumined the wreathed and dewy orchard trees and shone down the quiet walks under them.'
- Jane Eyre

'It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions.'
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

'So far the letter had run composedly enough, but here with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer's emotion had broken loose.'
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

'A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall.'
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

'At the first glance I was reminded of a museum.'
- The Time Machine, H. G. Wells

'On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.'
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle

'Perhaps it had been intended as a counterpart, but there was not the slightest difference to be seen between it and the first picture, there were the trees, there the grass and there the sunset.'
- The Trial, Franz Kafka

'It seemed to have in it a whole history of the country.'
- Dracula, Bram Stoker

'Put it to the test and cast your eyes upon the history of mankind.'
- Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky

'If they feel as we feel they may stop.'
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

'And we are out here, and the city is there, all wrapped up in its own coat of a thousand colors.'
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

'Without the fire we can't be rescued.'
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding

'And looking along them, with reverently shaded eyes, a bridge of light appeared to span the air between him and the sun, while the river sparkled under it.'
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

'I stood staring into the pit, and my heart lightened gloriously, even as the rising sun struck the world to fire about me with his rays.'
- The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells

'Violent blasts of rain had accompanied these rages of wind, and the day just closed as I sat down to read had been the worst of all.'
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens