A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Act I, Scene 1)

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world's scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, yet with reverence too."

(The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chapter 24)

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

“There was a great contrast between his world pessimism and personal cheeriness.”

(A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway)

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

"A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo’s heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering."

(The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Chapter 5)

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

“He had no articulate thought of anything; there was only this perfect sympathy of movement, of turning this earth of theirs over and over to the sun, this earth which formed their home and fed their bodies and made their gods.”

(The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck)