| 4384649635 | 1984 always watched | You had to live [...] in the assumption that every sound ou made was overheard, and, except in Darkness, every moment scrutinized | 0 | |
| 4384649636 | 1984 slogans | War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength | 1 | |
| 4384649637 | 1984 control of time | He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. | 2 | |
| 4384649638 | 1984 math | In the end the party would announce that two and two make five and you would have to believe it. | 3 | |
| 4384649639 | 1984 Power | Power is not a means; it is an end. | 4 | |
| 4384649640 | 1984 pain | Nothing in this world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. | 5 | |
| 4384649641 | 1984 same sky | It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody[...]And the people under the sky were also very much the same | 6 | |
| 4384664586 | Handmaids Tale name | I tell him my real name, and feel that therefore I am known. | 7 | |
| 4384668966 | Handmaids Tale humanity | How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. | 8 | |
| 4384673364 | Handmaid's Tale Feminism problem | The problem wasn't only with the women, he says. The main problem was with the men. | 9 | |
| 4384678907 | Handmaids Tale inscription | Nolite the bastardes caborundorun - Don't let the bastards grind you down | 10 | |
| 4384686034 | Handmaids Tale ordinary | "Ordinary" said Aunt Lydia, "is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary." | 11 | |
| 4384694956 | Handmaids Tale body issues | I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely. | 12 | |
| 4384699505 | Heart of Darkness madness | But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and , by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad. | 13 | |
| 4384706201 | Heart of Darkness mind | The mind of man is capable of anything | 14 | |
| 4384708320 | Heart of Darkness unfulfilled life | The horror! The horror! | 15 | |
| 4384713252 | Heart of darkness title reference | We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness | 16 | |
| 4384719002 | Heart of darkness dream | We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears the life continues painfully. | 17 | |
| 4384723422 | The Bluest Eye love | Love is never better than the lover | 18 | |
| 4384726032 | The bluest eye beauty | Beauty was not simply something to hold; it was something one could do | 19 | |
| 4384730193 | The bluest eye ugliness | It was as though some mysterious all - knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they each accepted it without question. | 20 | |
| 4384742841 | The bluest eye doll | I had only one desire; to dismember it. To see what it was made of, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me. | 21 | |
| 4384754978 | The bluest eye Blue eyes | Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty... A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the out of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. | 22 | |
| 4384761973 | Lord of the Flies beast | Maybe there is a beast... Maybe it's only us | 23 | |
| 4384766194 | Lord of the flies Ralph wept | Ralph wept for the end of innocent. The darkness of man heart, and the fall through the air of the true wise friend called piggy | 24 | |
| 4384771680 | Lord of the flies what are we | What are we? Human? Or animals? Or savages? | 25 | |
| 4384775497 | Lord of the flies losing civility | The world, that understandable and lawful world was slipping away. | 26 | |
| 4384778804 | Lord of the flies mask | The mask was a thing on its own behind which jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness | 27 |
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