“Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises This is the final line of The Sun Also Rises, spoken by Jake Barnes to Lady Brett Ashley after they reflect on the life and relationship they might have had together
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“If you have been unhappy all the day,
Wait patiently until the night.”
— The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish. Rather than being a dramatic or moralizing story, the book invites readers into a dreamlike world filled with angels, stars, talking animals, and surreal adventures. The tone is tender, imaginative, and quietly optimistic.
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“What, excepting torture, would produce insanity quicker than this treatment?” https://www.amazon.com/dp/1519649266
— Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887). Nellie Bly wrote this after being unjustly confined to the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York, where she witnessed horrific neglect and abuse. The line captures her outrage and empathy — and her courage in exposing institutional cruelty. #NellieBly #TenDaysInAMadHouse #ClassicLiterature #WomenWriters #Journalism #TrueStory #MustRead