**THE AENEID, Virgil. Book 2 (for Book 1, please see somewhere above) **
They all fell silent, gazing at Father Aeneas, and he began to speak from his raised couch: 'O queen, the sorrow you bid me bring me back to life again is passed all words, the destruction by the Greeks of the wealth of Troy and the kingdom that will be mourned for ever, and all the horrors that I have seen, and in which I played a large part.
I’m pretty much fucked.
The Martian, by Andy Weir.
“The Jews started it all–and by “it” I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make all of us, Jew and gentile, believer and atheist, tick.”
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels, by Thomas Cahill
“She could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it.” The Hero and the Crown, by Robin McKinley.
“Foley had never seen a prison where you could walk right up to the fence without getting shot.”
Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard
“The night it all ended, Vivian was alone.”
-The Sun Down Motel, by Simone St. James
“It’s a new elevator, freshly pressed to the rails, and it’s not built to fall this fast.”
The Intuitionist, by Colson Whitehead
“Really, the things we remember are the things we forget.”
(Quoted in Ex Libris G. K. Chesterton, compiled by Dale Ahlquist, originally published in Chesterton’s Autobiography.)
“Mom, can I go see the stars?”
Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers
Vera Atkins did not, as a rule, take too much notice of the opinions of others.
A Life in Secrets, by Sarah Helm
Ignore this.
“Tomorrow is my birthday.”
Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963, by Sharon Robinson
“The fretwork hands stood at five past four.”
Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn - The First Circle (Thomas P. Whitney translation)
“In a little room in South Great George Street in the city of Dublin, two girls were discussing a matter of great importance to them.”
Goddess of the Green Room, by Jean Plaidy
“He’s a Mad Scientist and I’m his Beautiful Daughter.”*
The Pursuit of the Pankera - Robert Heinlein
Like a glowing jewel, the city lay upon the breast of the desert. — The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke.
" ‘So that’s settled, then; we bury her alive in the iron bridle.’ "
– Company of Liars, by Karen Maitland
“Horror, strangeness, and fear have always been part of literature.”
Monster She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction, by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson
“My eye kept coming back to the big gray.”
A Horse to Remember by Sam Savitt
“Man in general doesn’t appreciate what he has until he is deprived of it.”
The Court of Last Resort, by Erle Stanley Gardner