[Bilbo1967]

Everybody was correct with all their answers!

1. All this happened, more or less.
Slaughterhouse Five; Kurt Vonnegut - Fbone

2. The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry.
Jude the Obscure; Thomas Hardy - doubleshuffle

3. It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Love in the Time of Cholera; Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Fbone

4. It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
Catch 22; Joseph Heller - pdurrant

5. The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
The Go-Between; L.P. Hartley - orlok

6. They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
Wide Sargasso Sea; Jean Rhys - drjd

7. It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath - doubleshuffle

8. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Anna Karenina; Leo Tolstoy - Bookpossum

9. Under certain circumstance there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
The Portrait of a Lady; Henry James - drjd

10. They’re out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Ken Kesey - Phyllis41

11. I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Goodbye to Berlin; Christopher Isherwood - drjd

12. It was the day my grandmother exploded.
Crow Road; Iain Banks - orlok

13. Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure.
The Stranger; Albert Camus - doubleshuffle

14. You better not never tell nobody but God.
The Colour Purple; Alice Walker - doubleshuffle

15. I'm pretty much fucked.
The Martian; Andy Weir - orlok

So, the scores;

doubleshuffle - 4
orlok - 3
drjd - 3
Fbone - 2
pdurrant - 1
Bookpossum - 1
Phyllis41 - 1