So not necessarily classic scenes from classic books (although happy to hear of them too!) but are there random scenes that pop into your mind frequently from otherwise 'regular' books?
I read a fiction book about the siege of Stalingrad many years ago, and there's a scene where the mother sees an onion, and imagines being able to.cook.it for her sons, and imagines all the goodness going into him. One onion. It pops into my head fairly regularly.
Also a book which had a very fluffy/'chick lit' cover but was much better than the cover suggested (as is often the case...) about an artist who was no longer with her husband but painted a picture of him that perfectly captured the way he rotated his fo