Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. To participate, grab your current read, open to a random page, and share a few sentences. Don't include spoilers, but do include the title and author.

I am no judge of verses, and for my own part, never composed more than six lines in my life: Those six produced so unlucky an effect that I am fully resolved never to compose another.

Loc. 2470-71 of The Monk by Matthew G. Lewis