Theme: hope
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journey Through Winter
Aouda, cosily packed in furs and cloaks, was sheltered as much as possible from the attacks of the freezing wind. As for Passepartout, his face was as...
Frankenstein / Loss and Friendship
I once had a friend, the most noble of human creatures, and am entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship. You have hope, and the world befor...
Dracula / New Beginnings
He has closed the account most accurately, and to-day begun a new record. How many of us begin a new record with each day of our lives? To me it seems...
Dracula / Loneliness and Hope
He took my hands and raised me up, and made me sit on the sofa, and sat by me; he held my hand in his, and said to me with, oh, such infinite sweetnes...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Defiance in Darkness
“I would drown first.” Just then the moon appeared through the fringes of a thick cloud that the wind was driving to the east. She was five miles from...
Pride and Prejudice / Longing and Separation
They were confined for the evening at different tables; and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the ro...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Sanity and Madness
Surely my brain had not been affected by my fall, and all that occurred during the last twenty-four hours was not the frenzied visions of madness? And...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Shadows on the Bridge
The bridge was covered with black, agitated shadows. The poor creatures were crowding the ratlines, clinging to the masts, struggling under the water.
Around the World in Eighty Days / Focus and Frustration
They grumbled and protested, and would certainly have thus attracted Phileas Fogg’s attention if he had not been completely absorbed in his game. Pass...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Echoes of Despair
help!” Our movements were suspended for an instant; we listened. It might be only a singing in the ear, but it seemed to me as if a cry answered the c...
Gulliver's Travels / Despair and Ingenuity
I then fastened my handkerchief to a stick I usually carried, and thrusting it up the hole, waved it several times in the air, that if any boat or shi...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Domestic Chaos
“All is lost.” “We shall see.” He pushed past the servant and rushed into the drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was scatter...
The War of the Worlds / Hope Amidst Despair
It grew upon my mind, once I could face the facts, that terrible as our position was, there was as yet no justification for absolute despair. Our chie...
The War of the Worlds / Hope Amid Destruction
Plentiful hope—for all this destruction!” I began to explain my view of our position. He listened at first, but as I went on the interest dawning in h...