“The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
- Lord of the Flies, William Golding
“Lou Levy, top man of Leeds Music Publishing company, took me up in a taxi to the Pythian Temple on West 70th Street to show me the pocket sized recording studio where Bill Haley and His Comets had recorded “Rock Around the Clock” — then down to Jack Dempsey’s restaurant on 58th and Broadway, where we sat down in a red leather upholstery booth facing the front window.
- Chronicles: Volume One, Bob Dylan
“The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
- The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
“You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
“There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
- Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
“When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.
- The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien)
