Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

So here's the game. I quote a line or explain a plot, you solve it. Then it's your turn.

"'Where are you going?'
'To put Adèle to bed: it is past her bedtime'"

My mother says: "Jane Eyre!"

Then she says: "A fortnight later..."

"Pride and Prejudice"?

"Cheeky little beggar."

"The Secret Garden"?

"Chip the glasses and crack the plates!
Blunt the knives and bend the forks!"

That is so The Hobbit.

Um... "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"

"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

"It was December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened."

The Giver, I believe. (My mother is cheating. It's her fault.)

"You can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention."

Eragon!

"'I think you really look like the kind of guy who is some kind of genius on the inside but doesn’t necessarily even know it himself. I bet you’ll go far in acting.'"


Bob, you can't answer this one.

Bob's nanowrimo... (don't know the title... couldn't find bob's profile on the nanowrimo site)

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

My book doesn't have a title yet, actually. On the site I think it says something like, "I Really Have No Idea."

The answer is Nueromancer, by someone. I've never read it. Is it good?



"Where is daddy going with that axe?"

Charlotte's Web?

"The girl, however, has buried herself in the same research you're doing"

if you can't get that one,

"Ayce smiled. And so winter turned to spring"

Ooo! I <3 John Grisham! Pelican Brief!

The other one is harder. Google is of no help.

Oh well. I got one of them.

"You are the murderer that you seek!"

Oedipus


"That was impossible. We were at sea. Visitors did not stop to call! "

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Loke that book.

"I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

The Great Gatsby

I'll make this one easier (although if you can guess my other one you get brownie points)

"She saw the glass wobble. It actually tilted backwards a fraction of an inch, than righted itself again."

I want to say Matilda, but I am not sure at all.

I think you're probably right.

"And it came to pass..."

Even my four-year-old sister knows where that one came from.

"It's far away, with someone I can never have."

You win.