Lines you may recognize from your favourite books

If you love reading you probably have your favourites. And if you have read a lot in your life, then chances are you will recognize a good number of these lines, curated by the Genretop review team.

1. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

— 1984.

2. So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.

–– Perks Of Being A Wallflower.

3. And presently, like a circling typhoon, the sounds of battle began to return.

–– Vile Bodies.

4. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.

–– A Moveable Feast.

5. Mother died today.

— The Stranger.

6. Stay Gold, Ponyboy.

–– The Outsiders.

7. It was the day my grandmother exploded.

— The Crow Road.

8. Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash.

— Crash.

9. Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I’ve come to learn, is women.

— Middle Passage.

10. High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour.

— Changing Places.

11. All children, except one, grow up.

–– Peter Pan.

12. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

— The Essential Neruda.

13. In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.

— The Diary of Anne Frank.

14. You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture.

— This Is How You Lose Her.

15. Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

— Slaughterhouse-Five.

16. It was strange the way he loved her; a sidelong and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.

— The Art of Fielding.

17. So it goes.

— Slaughterhouse-Five.

18. I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

— Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.

19. Her legs swing complete afternoons away.

— From Rockaway.

20. Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

— The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

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