"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins."

“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."

 “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”

“I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up.”

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man."

"True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"

"Marley was dead: to begin with."

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

"It was a pleasure to burn."

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."