romance

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre

First: There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

Last: Daily He announces more distinctly,—‘Surely I come quickly!’ and hourly I more eagerly respond,—‘Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!’”

Cecelia Ahern. PS, I Love You

First: Holly held the blue cotton sweater to her face and the familiar smell immediately struck her, an overwhelming grief knotting her stomach and pulling at her heart.

Last: In the meantime, she would just live.

William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet

First: Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

Last: For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

W. Somerset Maugham. The Moon and Sixpence

First: I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary.

Last:He remembered the days when you could get thirteen Royal Natives for a shilling.

Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita

First: At the hour of the hot spring sunset two citizens appeared at the Patriarch's Ponds.

Last: His needled memory grows quiet, and until the next full moon no one will trouble the professor—neither the noseless killer of Gestas, nor the cruel fifth procurator of Judea, the equestrian Pontius Pilate.

Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind

First: Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

Last: After all, tomorrow is another day.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina

First: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Last: I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I shall still go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for it; I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying; but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.