This Week…

“He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

–Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“It was a pleasure to burn.”

–Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

–Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

–George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.”

–Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

–Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

–Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

–Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.”

–Toni Morrison

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

–Mary Shelley, Frankenstein