Overall Rank: 18
543 points
"I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."
Overall Rank: 84
219 points
"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.The event on which this fiction is founded has been..."
Overall Rank: 444
39 points
"'Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.'"
Overall Rank: 7
735 points
"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...
Overall Rank: 118
164 points
"This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."
Overall Rank: 605
5 points
"'And so they've killed our Ferdinand', said the charwoman to Mr Svejk, who had left military service years before, after having been finally certified by an army medical board as an imbecile, and..."
Overall Rank: 462
33 points
Overall Rank: 509
24 points
"On the first Monday of April 1625, the market town of Meung, the birthplace of the author of the iRoman de la Rose/i, was in a wild state of excitement."
Overall Rank: 166
119 points
"Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and..."
Overall Rank: 16
606 points
"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm, as the Tarleton twins were."