Paradise Lost

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven”

John Milton

Othello

“I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this,
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss”

William Shakespeare

The Starry Messenger

Kenneth Lonergan

Emma

“If I loved you less I might be able to talk about it more”

Jane Austen

Jane Eyre

“I am no bird; and no nest ensnares me; I am a free human being of independent will”

Charlotte Bronte

Frankenstien

“There can be no community from me; we are enemies”

Mary Shelly

The Turn of The Screw

“I was a screen! I was their protector. The more I saw the less they would”

Henry James

Gigi and The Cat

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm”

Collette

Antigone

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride”

Sophocles

Women Of Troy

“The men who hunted down a single woman and, in Helen, a single Kypris destroyed countless thousands”

Euripides

Don Juan

“What a terrible thing to be a great lord, but a wicked man”

Moliere

Vox

“Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. That’s what they say, right?”

Christina Dalcher

Alice in Wonderland

“It is of no use going back to yesterday, I was a different person then!”

Lewis Caroll

War of The Worlds

“This isn’t a war!” said the artilleryman “It never was a war, any more than there has been war against humans and ants!”

H. G. Wells

Posh

“So how do you make an Eton mess?”

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“Tell him he only got into Bristol”

Laura Wade

1984

“Whoever controls the past controls the future. Whoever controls the present controls the past”

George Orwell

The Flat Share

“It was never home until you were there, Tiffy”

Beth O’Leary

The End of The Affair

“I measured love by the extent of my jealousy”

Graham Greene

Medea

“Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour”

Euripides

The Handmaids Tale

“Nolite te Bastardes Carborumdorum”

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down”

Margaret Atwood

Dear Girls

“Just accept that you’re not a genius”

Ali Wong

A Room With A View

“But I do love you surely in a better way than he does” he thought “yes – really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms”

E. M. Foster

Normal People

“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone”

Sally Rooney

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Where there are bees there are flowers, and where there are flowers there is new life and hope”

Christie Lefteri

Home, I’m Darling

“Well, it’s just not very fifties, is it?”

Laura Wade

The Winter’s Tale

“A sad tales best for winter. I have one of Sprites and goblins”

William Shakespeare

Expectations

“life is still malleable and full of potential… they still have time to become who they are going to be”

Anna Hope

The Duchess Of Malfi

“Ambition, madam, is a mans great madness”

John Webster