The Wasteland
by T.S. Eliot

"April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."

The Hours
by Michael Cunningham

"She hurries from the house, wearing a coat too heavy for the weather."

Moby Dick
by Herman Melville

"Call me Ishmael."

Ulysses
by James Joyce

"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay crossed."

Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."