All Episodes

"The rest is silence."

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

"Yukiko's diarrhoea persisted through the twenty-sixth, and was a problem on the train to Tokyo."

"In the spirit of the dead, the living, and the unborn, empty your ears of all impurities, o listener, that you may hear my story."

"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it..."

"We should begin with the house, the house that made me."

"As I left China farther and farther behind, I looked out of the window and saw a great universe beyond the plane's silver wing."

"I say that Nhamo's grandmother was a witch because the people of the village said so. And she was."

"He is coming, and I am here."

"We didn't call it Lagos then. The name was Eko, a name that must have belonged to our ancestors.."

"This is not a full circle. It's Life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it."

"Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room.."

"The white man whose power you know too well has ordered this meeting to stop."

"They called him Ma Ma Gombe, Ma Ma Water, out of respect and not mockery, because they were too wise to mock him."

"For a while longer they lie still. Then he whispers, 'Be good,' and then he whispers, 'Forgive me'."

"The news that our district was to be visited by a celebrated actor had spread throughout the mountain area of Phoenix of the Sky."

"We shall never cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.."

"It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed."

"It's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."

"All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains."

"On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts."

"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."

"Before my wife turned vegetarian, I thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way.“

"Cash isn't the only thing I take from my father's study when I leave home."

"I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran."

"If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."

"He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Hazel followed; and together they slipped away.."

"If you’re going to read this, don’t bother."

"We're all mad here."

"It is the beginning of wisdom, to recognize that the unexpected may happen."

"Man is not truly one, but truly two."

"The last few days of my life have taught me never to trust a rabbit."

"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person."

"And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea."

The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years—if it ever did end—began..

"They were both right."

"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm."

"This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning.."

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive.."

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents.."

"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe,.."

"In the first weeks of World War II, in the fall of 1939, a six-year-old boy from a large city in Eastern Europe was sent by his parents.."

"Up out of the lampshade, startled by the overhead light, flew a large nocturnal butterfly that began circling the room.."

"Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter."

"Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year.."

"True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"

"Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake."

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.."

"For Siddalee Walker, the need to understand has passed, at least for the moment. All that was left was love and wonder."

"Carla heard the car coming before it topped the little rise in the road that around here they called a hill."

"In the meantime, she would just live."

"When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said.."

"Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger."

"The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks.."

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind;

"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

"There was the dawning awareness of what the years had taken from him and given to him in the meantime."

"In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street."

"For the eye sees not itself, but by reflection, by some other things."

"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."

"He turned out the light and went into Jem's room..."

"James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami airport and thought about death."

"Only when I am in bed, at dawn, listening to the cars down below in the streets of Paris, my memory betrays me.."

"I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods."

"It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,' Mrs Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

"When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold."

"The Japanese slipped forward with his camera, crouched and took two three four pictures in quick succession."

"If you want to find Cherrytree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads."

"He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance."

"As I sit here with one foot on either side of the ledge, looking down from twelve stories above the streets of Boston, I can’t help.."

"She had started to cry softly. Odenigbo took her in his arms."

"Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary..."

"The broken flower drooped over Ben's fist and his eyes were empty and blue and serene.."

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

"And here she is, herself, Clarissa, not Mrs. Dalloway anymore.."

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía..."

"When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances then candid ones, they had to smile..."

"Not long ago, there lived in London a young married couple of Dalmatian dogs named Pongo and Misses Pongo."

"Might I trouble you then to be ready in half an hour, and we can stop at Marcini’s for a little dinner on the way?"

"Her gynaecologist recommended him to me..."

"So we can just be friends, can't we? I am so crazy about you."

"My father was a fox farmer."

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself.."

"It was a dark and stormy night.."

"We must cultivate our garden."

"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house..."

"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"Once upon a time there was a war."

"I lingered a moment looking at her hair and her face, and I turned and went into my house, and I closed the door behind me."

"I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story."

"And the world was all around us, new with possibility."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

For now I know what happiness feels like. I know what it feels like to be loved and to love in return.

"He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders.."

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

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

"Smiley settled in his big armchair by the fire. The rain on the window was like the rumour of an old war..."

"Billy Meadows died on the 4th of July, his body found at dawn in a dry ravine by the Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Boulevard."

"But that is the beginning of a new story..."

"Call me Ishmael."

"And thus, almost in the very footsteps of the shadow of Norgate and Bonney, my house was turned into a church."

"I was born in the city of Bombay... once upon a time."

"The wake itself remains, etched out across the water’s surface; then it fades as well, although no one is there to see it go."

"The story so far- In the beginning, the Universe was created."

"An excellent year’s progress."

I was born twice- first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960..

„In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.“

"The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon."

"And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good."

"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

"This is the story of a man named Eddie, and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun."

"It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns."

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."

"I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray.."

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

"There is another sky, Ever serene and fair."

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."

"In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist.."

"But I don’t think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt."

"Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law."

"I am haunted by humans."

"It was the day my grandmother exploded."

"And I rose up and knew that I was tired and I continued my journey."

"The early morning was colourless, and impersonal, and the birds were not yet in tune."

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl.."

"But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way.."

"In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together."

"The sun on the altar in the west window lay in the shape of a cross, even as the Phrygians had known it would."

"All children, except one, grow up."

„In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.“

"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.“

"The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.“

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

"This is followed by a sigh, then a slight..."

"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."

"But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest.."

"In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black coats, and they ride on broomsticks."

"All my ups and downs.."

"America was never innocent.."

"But the hands of one of the gentlemen were laid on K.’s throat..."

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses..

"Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right.."

"It was a wrong number that started it.."

"Now, free from them all, for good, he could be what he wanted to be..."

"Abandon all hope ye who enter here."

"It was the photograph of Joe..."

"It wasn't a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance."

"His thoughts were as gray as ashes..."

"Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.."

"All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for.."

"Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him."

"The eyes and faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room."

"The circus arrives without warning."

"For the final consummation and for me to feel less lonely.."

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."

"Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision."

"I was 37 then, strapped in my seat as the 747.."

"I am thinking of aurochs and angels.."

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.“

"He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was."

"Dark spruce forest frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.“

"Lastly, she pictured to herself how this..."

"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday.. "

"I lingered round them, under that benign sky.."

"I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice.."

"But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence.."

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling..."

"A screaming comes across the sky."

"The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.."

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

"In the deep glens where they lived, all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."

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

"Frodo was alive, but taken by the enemy."

"Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper."

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."

"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."

"Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater."

"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it."

"The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers."

The creatures outside looked from pig to...

"They shoot the white girl first."

"He loved Big Brother."

"You better not ever tell nobody but God."

"Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."

"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer.."

"I am an invisible man."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"It was a pleasure to burn."