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"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."
- The Cask of Amontillado

"True! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"
- The Tell-Tale Heart

"For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my soul. My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified - have tortured - have destroyed me."
- The Black Cat

"I was sick -- sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me."
- The Pit and the Pendulum

"The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal -- the redness and the horror of blood."
- The Masque of the Red Death

"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country ; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher."
- The Fall of the House of Usher


I'm not sure if I recited those correctly. That was all I could remember, besides The Gold-Bug and Rue Morgue, which I dislike both.

I bet you started digging your grave, didn't you, Wickimen?


Anyways... bump? :3

gbear605 wrote:

Wickimen wrote:

gbear605 wrote:

Beginning
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

      

End:
I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer ...

Best book ever written
As well as HP2 through 7.

Yep!

Kileymeister wrote:

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." ~The Hobbit or There and Back Again, J.R.R Tolkien

Doesn't sound memorable, but what's great is that Tolkien doesn't explain at all what a hobbit is until one and a half pages later.  He describes the hole instead.  Such clever, subtle wit.   

Yes, Tolkien is a very good writer.

"I am writing this story about Treasure Island on the request of my friends, Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey." --Treasure Island, abridged version.

I got one.

"And then we fell down a ditch."

Someone failed miserably. 

soupoftomato wrote:

lilacfuzz101 wrote:

From Eragon:

Christopher Paolini wrote:

Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world.

A fart to wipe out the world out?

Umm, lemme think. I think I have read some funny one's trying to remember . . .

um... no -_- I would explain but it's complicated... Well, Duzra is able to smell very well and he smells Ayra and 2 other elves carrying Saphira's egg which will hatch soon and... yeah. 

From The Titan's Curse

"The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school."

Look. I didn't want to be a half-blood.
-The Lightning Thief, Percy Jackson and the Olympians

In Iceland, fairies live inside rocks. Seriously. They have houses in there and schools and amusement parks and everything.
-Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass

All I can think of now.