Can You Finish These Famous Lines From Books?

"To be, or not to be, that is the question—" One of the questions, at least. It wouldn't be much of a trivia quiz if it was just one question.

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Can You Finish This Line From “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen?

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  1. Penguin Books USA
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    The opening line of "Pride and Prejudice" reads, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

Can You Finish This Line From "A Tale Of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens?

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  1. Penguin Books USA
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    The introduction to "A Tale of Two Cities reads, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."

Can You Finish This Line From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë?

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  1. Penguin Books USA
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    The complete line reads, ""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."

Can You Finish This Line From “Ulysses" by James Joyce?

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  1. Oxford World’s Classics
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    The line reads, “Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves."

Can You Finish This Line From “Beloved" by Toni Morrison?

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    The complete line is, “Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”

Can You Finish This Line From "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf?

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  1. Hogarth Press
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    The complete line is, "“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”

Can You Finish This Line From "The Fellowship of the Ring” by J.R.R. Tolkien?

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    The complete poem reads, "All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king."

Can You Finish This Line From “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare?

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  1. Dover Thrift Editions
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    "To be, or not to be, that is the question— Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep— No more; and by a sleep, to say we end." –William Shakespeare

Can You Finish This Line From "Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou?

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  1. antiwarsongs.org
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    The final stanza of Maya Angelou's poem reads, "Leaving behind nights of terror and fear – I rise– Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear – I rise – Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. – I rise – I rise – I rise."

Can You Finish This Line From "The Farthest Shore” by Ursula K. Le Guin?

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    The complete line is, ""What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life."

Can You Finish This Line From "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” by J.K. Rowling?

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  1. Bloomsbury / Scholastic
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    The complete line reads, "'There are all kinds of courage,' said Dumbledore, smiling. 'It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.'"

Can You Finish This Line From "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald?

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  1. Scribner's
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    The complete final line of "The Great Gatsby" reads, "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter– tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning– So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Can You Finish This Line From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut?

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  1. Dell Publishing
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    The complete quote is, “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

Can You Finish This Line From "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell?

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    The complete line is, “Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”

Can You Finish This Line From "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck?

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  1. Penguin Books USA
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    The complete line is, “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”

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