- ❝it was a bright cold day in april, and the clocks were striking thirteen. winston smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of victory mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.❞
- 1984, george orwell
- ❝it was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the rosenbergs, and i didn't know what i was doing in new york. i'm stupid about executions. the idea of being electrocuted makes me sick, and that's all there was to read about in the papers — goggle-eyed headlines staring up at me on every street and corner and at the fusty, peanut-smelling mouth of every subway. it had nothing to do with me, but i couldn't help wondering what it would be like, being burned alive all along your nerves.❞
- the bell jar, sylvia plath
- ❝the studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.❞
- the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde
- ❝when he was nearly thirteen, my brother jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. when it healed, and jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. his left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh. he couldn’t have cared less, so long as he could pass and punt.❞
- to kill a mockingbird, harper lee
- ❝at the court of the emperor (he lived it matters not when) there was among the many gentlewomen of the wardrobe and chamber one who, though she was not of very high rank, was favored far beyond all the rest; so that the great ladies of the palace, each of whom had secretly hoped that she herself would be chosen, looked with scorn and hatred upon the upstart who had dispelled their dreams.❞
- the tale of genji (源氏物語; genji monogatari), murasaki shikibu
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