Classics-curriculum Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“The hours I would spend in the prison visiting room were among the most comforting of my life. They sped by, the only occasion…

— Piper Kerman

“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly round him,…

— Marcel Proust

“There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with…

— George Orwell

“The minutes were cruel. Hours were punishing. Standing above him at all moments of awakeness was the hand of time, and it didn’t hesitate…

— Markus Zusak

“But in his soul, he had been a fighter stuck in a desk job. Resentment had made him edgy, and even though he hadn’t…

— J.R. Ward

“I would have gone right back to sleep. But for some reason, I found that I could not; at my first memory of what…

— Jeff Lindsay

“The best thing...perhaps the only good thing--about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he…

— Neil Gaiman

“For a moment I hoped I was in heaven--or wherever it is my kind go when death calls...Instead I opened my eyes and discovered…

— Kate Locke

“...it made him feel alive. He needed a jolt to his system. Something to shake him out of the cozy prison he had created…

— Phaedra Patrick

“I had closed my eyes and seen a place I hadn’t known existed. There was no anger, no loneliness, no jagged icy fear gnawing…

— Aryn Kyle

“Soon after this incident the court rose. As I was being taken from the courthouse to the prison van, I was conscious for a…

— Albert Camus

“I was tired enough to sleep, but I fought against the weariness. I wasn't going to miss a second of the time I had…

— Stephenie Meyer