Albert Camus / L’etranger (The Stranger) –
“Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure”

Sylvia Plath / The Bell Jar –
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”

Vladimir Nabokov / Lolita –
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.”

Kurt Vonnegut / Slaughterhouse-Five –
“All this happened, more or less.”

Herman Melville / Moby Dick –
“Call Me Ishmael.”

J.D Salinger / The Catcher In The Rye –
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”