Theme: introspection
Wuthering Heights / Dreams and Identity
“Nelly, do you never dream queer dreams?” she said, suddenly, after some minutes’ reflection. I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me e...
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...
Pride and Prejudice / Societal Constraints
If you mention my name at the Bell, you will be attended to.” Lady Catherine had many other questions to ask respecting their journey; and as she did ...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Tensions
and yet how many things have happened!” “A great many indeed,” said her companion, with a sigh. “We have dined nine times at Rosings, besides drinking...
Frankenstein / Inevitability of Fate
I wait but for one event, and then I shall repose in peace. I understand your feeling,” continued he, perceiving that I wished to interrupt him; “but ...
Dracula / Resting Place
Lucy lies in the tomb of her kin, a lordly death-house in a lonely churchyard, away from teeming London; where the air is fresh, and the sun rises ove...
Frankenstein / Isolation in Nature
But I was in no mood to laugh and talk with strangers or enter into their feelings or plans with the good humour expected from a guest; and accordingl...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Generosity and Courage
But, before going, he had said to the soldiers, “My friends, I will divide five thousand dollars among you, if we save the prisoners.” It was then a l...
Dracula / Friendship and Reflection
But we live and learn, and in our present task we must take no chance, as my friend Quincey would say. Seward seemed to answer them both in a dreamy k...
The War of the Worlds / Survival and Threat
I stopped to look at them, drawing a lesson from their stout resolve to live. And presently, turning suddenly, with an odd feeling of being watched, I...
The War of the Worlds / Ordinary Catastrophe
He extended a thin white hand and spoke in almost a complaining tone. The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Continents and Men
These are coral islands, slowly raised, but continuous, created by the daily work of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neigh...
Frankenstein / Transition and Isolation
I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged in endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure—I was now alone. In the universit...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Knowledge and Chaos
Among these he rummaged and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Inner Turmoil
My uncle, who for a short time had been withdrawn from his absorbing reveries by the novel incidents of this sea fight, fell back again apparently int...
Pride and Prejudice / Character Reflection
Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on in any of those pleasures which too oft...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Traveling with Purpose
Fogg and his party reached the station, and they only had time to get into the cars. They had seen nothing of Omaha; but Passepartout confessed to him...
Dracula / Depths of Expression
I am speaking from the depths of my heart--of my very soul. You don’t know whom you wrong, or how; and I may not tell.