Famous Lines from Famous Books Info.

1. "A screaming comes across the sky..." This line is from the novel "Gravity's Rainbow," which was published in the year 1973 by the author Thomas Pynchon who lived from 1937 to 1966. This author is also known for other works, including short stories and uncollected articles. Summary: World War II is the setting. Strange things are happening around Slothrop. Scientists and Shadow Organizations have noticed a curious correlation between the locations of Tyrone's beneath-the-sheets rompings and the locations of German V-2 rocket assaults. Either Slothrop is singling out these crash sites or the German rockets are following Slothrop around London for another reason. Seeking answers to this question launches Slothrop on a paranoid-ridden tour of post-War Europe, hunting for the mysterious Schwarzgerät and the Rocket "00000", where he encounters a large cast of party-goers, scientists, gangsters and soldiers, dopers and refugees all of whom are just trying to scrape by and cope with daily life in The Zone. 2. "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody..." This line is from the novel "The Catcher in the Rye," which was published in the year 1951 by the author J.D. Salinger who lived from 1919 to 2010. This author is also known for other works, including "Nine Stories" and "Franny and Zooey." Summary: Teenager, Holden Caulfield, is having trouble with yet another boarding school, Pency. Holden is starting to get sick of the school and the people in it. He is trying to find something good that he can remember about Pency and finally leave. After meeting his history teacher, and going meeting with his roommates, Stradler and Ackley, Holden finally leaves Pency in the middle of the night, bound for New York. This is one of the many schools that Holden has been kicked out of, so his parents are really not happy with him.