TEN.

Here's the list of ten pieces of literature that have brought me awe. Instead of a description, I included a brief quote from each.

1. Jane Eyre: “. . . your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it . . .”

2. The Book Thief: “They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls.”

3. My Grandfather’s Blessings: “A pearl might be thought of as an oyster’s response to its suffering.”

5. A Monster Calls: “There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”

6. To the Lighthouse: “This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary.”

7. The Screwtape Letters: “. . . and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.”

8. The Catcher in the Rye: “I mean, how do you know what you’re going to do until you do it?

9. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: “It’s always necessary.”

10. Moses 1: “Who art thou? For behold, I am a son of God, in the similitude of his Only Begotten. . .”