FAIRY TALES & NOVELS

" Centuries ago there lived -
"A king!" my little readers will say immediately.
No, children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. " - Carlo Collodi

He arrived naked, at night, alone and hungry; yet he was not afraid! Look, he has already pushed aside one of my little ones. And that crippled butcher would kill him and flee in the bale of the Waingunga, letting the peasants, to take revenge, slaughter of our whole litter! If I want to keep it? Sure! Be quiet, little frog. The day will come when you, Mowgli - because I want to call you "Mowgli the Frog" - will hunt down Shere Khan like he hunted you " Raksha - Rudyard Kipling

"All the children, except one, grow up. They know soon that they will grow up and Wendy knew it this way. One day, when he was two, playing in a garden, he caught a flower and rushed it to his mother. It is to think that the child, in that attitude, seemed delightful because Mrs Darling put her hands to her heart and exclaimed:
"Oh, why can’t you stay like this forever?" That’s all that has been going on between them, but, ever since. Wendy knew she should have grown" - J.M. Barrie

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw the Chesire Cat on the tree. "Which way should I take?" she asked. The answer was a question " Where do you want to go?" "I don’t know," said Alice.So that goes along with the Chesire Cat saying, "If you don't care much where you want to get to, it doesn't much matter which way you go." - Lewis Carroll

"In the year 1872, the house bearing number 7 of Saville-row, Burlington Gardens, -house where Sherudan died in 1814, - was inhabited by Phileas Fogg, one of the most singular and most marked members of the Reform Club of London, although he seemed to be careful not to do anything that could attract attention" - Jules Verne

"For Sherlock Holmes she was always the woman, and seldom did he mention her otherwise. In her eyes it eclipsed, dominated all her sex. Not that she had felt any love for Irene Adler. All emotions- this particularity- were alien to his cold and compassionate soul, but surprisingly thoughtful"

"He accumulated on the white hump of the whale the sum of all the wrath and hatred felt by the whole race of the Adam time, and then, as if his chest were a mortar, he fired upon her the bomb of his burning heart" -Herman Melville

"The year 1866 presented a bizarre event, an unexplained and inexplicable phenomenon that certainly no one has forgotten. without speaking of the rumours that spread agitation among the populations of the port cities and overpowered public opinion within the continents, a particular emotion spread among the seafarers" - Jules Verne