-This first one isn’t a novel but I’ll be damned if it ain’t the perfect summation of everything that comes after.

-Hamlet-

Barnardo: Who’s there?

-Don Quixote-

Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and an ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.

-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-

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.

-Blood Meridian, Or The Evening Redness In The West-

See the child.

-The Divine Comedy-

When I had journeyed half our life’s way,
I found myself within a dark jungle,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.

-The Trial-

Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.

-Notes From Underground-

I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man.

-The Adventures of Augie March-

I am an American, Chicago born - Chicago, that somber city - and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted, sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.

-Native Son-

BRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNG!!!!

-Anna Karenina-

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

-Pride and Prejudice-

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

-Iliad-

Anger be now your song, immortal one,
Akhilleus’ anger, doomed and ruinous,
that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss
and crowded brave souls into the undergloom,
leaving so many dead men - carrion
for dogs and birds; and the will of Zeus was done.