Friday, September 30, 2005

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

"But you see, Meg, just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist."

(A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle)

Thursday, September 29, 2005

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

"It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart."

(A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Chapter 13)

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

"Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

(The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Chapter 26)

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Anthem by Ayn Rand

"My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. We have broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!"

(Anthem by Ayn Rand, Chapter 1)

Monday, September 26, 2005

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

"The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."

(Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, Chapter 17)

Sunday, September 25, 2005

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Cæsar."

(Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act III, Scene 2)