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Top Prose Quotes Quiz

Test your knowledge of profound prose with this engaging quiz that challenges you to identify quotes from various literary works. With ten thought-provoking questions, you can explore the depth of writing and the nuances of expression.

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Discover the origins of powerful quotes
Enhance your appreciation for literature
Compete with friends or challenge yourself

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by ReflectiveWriter204

IF YOU GO BACK, DON'T EVER TELL THEM

�Yet, when she arrives on their doorsteps, crying and bruised, there is also some pride to show that they had sent her well-equipped to find her way back. They did not send her as a beggar. They sent her with jewels.”

“When a bride walks into a ceremonial hall, the guests examine her closely, waiting to see with what arsenal of asylum her family is sending her away. ‘What a beautiful bride’ really means ‘look at her armor’.”

“‘Did he touch you?’ her father would cry, scanning her with his eyes in search of signs of hate on her skin. ‘No. He never touched me,’ she would answer truthfully. More truthfully than her parents would ever know.”

“The Necklace had performed odysseys with her, crossing oceans and mountains, in her bosom for the most important days of her life, just to turn up missing on what she thought would be yet another insignificant day.”

LIFT

�I sat on the passenger side in the middle row in my rumpled suit, my eyeglasses now oily from dancing at the bar and my socks were scrunched down around my ankles.”

“There wasn’t any music playing on the radio and I was thinking about how during the other few rides I’d gotten, there was always music, and it seemed like he maybe liked music or at least had ideas about it, and it was quiet because he’d finished talking and I was still drunk.”

“I had meant to try and meet someone at the wedding but was either too drunk or they were all married, and mostly I remember trying to keep up with a conversation about our alma mater’s football team as compared to Auburn’s football team with the two other guys from college who’d been invited, and maybe I hadn’t been trying that hard anyway to not go home alone.”

EXODUS

�I knew all about Exodus. I was nine when the world went underwater, not five like Lou.”

�I don't use my legs much to walk anymore, just to visit Outer Edge, this little town with one library.”

�The library remained fairly untouched. It stands like a humble sentinel -- teeming with cracks in the foundation, water running through the channels -- accepting it’s position in life.”

DANCE OF THE WHITE PHOENIX

�A good time with the Emperor meant Mahjong or feigning awe to the designs of his gold-lined and garishly colored outfits. All the concubines called him Big Sister behind his back, mocking his flamboyant eccentricity.”

“Beyond the royal pond, half-naked men danced in the courtyard looking like Siamese fighting fish in their cyan, yellow, and magenta silk garbs, fluttering in the wind. Drummers, two-string guitarists, and a flute-player performed a folksong for the emperor and his court.”

“The neighborhood there had been quarantined. The local hospitals were flooded with people suffering from tuberculosis, and with the riots, they could not take him to a well-trained doctor.”

“She didn’t care about royalty, empire or riches. They waste away atop their ornation and watch their people burn.”

“She put both her hands into the air. The white silk of her sleeves draped like wings engulfed her as she danced her fate.”

“His dark eyes were unrelenting. Even if she risked a beheading and escaped the citadel into the balmy night past the guards and ride the train to Saigon, she knew she could never escape that gaze.”

BATHSHEBA

�I knew this time was different. This wasn’t a friend. This wasn’t a boyfriend of a peer or an ex. This was Uriah’s superior; my husband’s boss.”

“The text was longer and more eloquent than I had expected; a greeting, an expression of support in my husband’s absence, an offer of friendship in this time of isolation.”

�David didn’t knock when he entered. The door was unlocked so that guests could travel in and out as they pleased, but I was surprised to see him.”

�The air of goodness, the light that should have warned me of his impending arrival, was completely diminished, replaced only by heavy footsteps and a sense of duty.”

�I should have known that none of it would stop him. I thought stained clothing and oily skin and used feminine hygiene products would have been enough to push him away in disgust.”

SILVER ALERT

�I shared we suspected she had dementia, but she had no children, and we looked after her as best we could. He said they could put out a silver alert, like an Amber alert, and while it wouldn’t go out in the same exact way, it could help.”

�When we got the call from the Honda dealership that Aunt Marie wanted us to come and see her new Accord, we knew we were in trouble.”

STOLEN

�Tele Daddy repeated that he knew his money. He proceeded to make the rounds, one by one, eye to eye, asking if we knew anything about his missing cash. I smelled hamburger on his breath; Old Spice from his body. He slathered it on after his showers, conscious of how easily a big body could stink.”

�The word was murky whether Rich fled Smoke City because his gambling debt had him worried about getting his legs broken, or if his father had bailed him out of trouble, or if he’d been banned from one of the gaming floors for a card-counting scheme. Maybe none of the stories were on point. Maybe they all were. Hear a story from a wrestler, and there’s always a shade of gray.”

�‘This tampon-necked geek behind the counter has the nerve to tell me there’s no time to print more because they’re busy.’ Bruiser ate from a plate of spaghetti.”

�One of the first rules you learn in wrestling is that it’s not just the storylines that are works of fiction, but the prizes, too. No one was driving off with one of those cars. ‘We’re going to gimmick the windshields with sugar glass, so they shatter when somebody hits them,’ Rich Senior added. ‘Junior and Dark Warrior are going to do a big spot, and we’ve got not one, but two cars, so that there’s a backup.’”

�That’s the thing about a certain kind of stealing. You know you were in the wrong. You get caught. You pay the consequences. You never get rid of that warm heat of shame on your skin. I let that wad of phlegm run its course, dripping off my cheek like I deserved it.”

�The boys told stories. A lot of them included something getting stolen. They told these stories casually, apropos nothing, old-timers spinning yarns and younger talents trying to get a word in edgewise for a tall tale.”

FIRST CLASS SEAT

�It was one of those artful and existential, cinematic messes that would end up winning awards in a few small festivals and then vanish like a rapist.”

�The air is cold, industrial freezer cold. I cannot breathe. It’s like a tornado pried open my jaw and climbed inside my throat. I shut my gaping mouthful of frozen teeth and notice I’m still strapped into my first-class seat. There’s one thing I did right today -- the seat belt.”

�Seven miles high; free and clear. They say when your life flashes before your eyes, Mr. Time slows down. What they don’t tell you is that Miss Death may pay you a little visit and wipe any notion of a complex and satisfying ending from your screaming narrative, and then, in one hot jalapeno moment, you’re accelerated to 120 miles per hour, straight down into the loving arms of one fatal ménage à trois.”

�The Pacific Ocean has made me a promise I know she’ll keep.”

THE GRIM REAPER'S WISH

�I see it in the colors of the sky as it gives way to light and shadow, and in the way a lion pounces to catch its prey. I hear it when the drops of rain fall suicidal to the ground. I catch it as a volcano spits loud, raging fire to mark its territory. I watch it as the trees dance to the songs of the wind, and I recognize it in the glint of a man's eye as he takes aim to fire a bullet to kill. I cannot get enough of beauty in life and in destruction.”

�There is a place where human souls go after I have carried them to the other side. A place where the sky burns red, orange, and white, and where, in the vast emptiness of barren land, stands a mountain taller than the deepest ocean bed; its face sharper and more jagged than a pile of hundred-foot rusty nails.”

�The blood-rain is unrelenting and, soon enough, everything is underwater. I keep swimming, not knowing where this cursed lake will end.”

�A small candle sits on a cake abandoned in the middle of a forlorn path. I crouch in front of it. The small fire dances invitingly. The beating thump calls once again.”

“It was like Poseidon rose from the depths of the ocean to challenge the heavens to war. Poseidon is a myth, however, and I am not.”

THE PROJECT

�At some point, I began wearing a black tank top under my work shirt. Laundering the blood out of my only Sunshine t-shirt every week was getting tedious, and the guys in my crew were asking questions.”

�Pain wasn’t the point of my obsession. It was an added benefit. If you’d asked me then about the point of my project, you wouldn’t have gotten a straight answer.”

�I started taking two water bottles to work—one for water and the other for vodka.”

�I have to admit that I was drunk during that first visit—and for most subsequent visits.”

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