25 Of The Most Beautiful Single Sentences In All Of Literature

“It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that”

— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“Stay Gold, PonyBoy”

— S.E Hinton, amazon.com

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com

“The half life of love is forever.”

— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com

“We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.”

— Tom Stoppard, amazon.com

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”

— Kate Chopin, amazon.com

“She was lost in her longing to understand.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, amazon.com

“Do I dare / Disturb the universe?”

— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com

“How wild it was, to let it be.”

— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com

“The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.”

— Toni Morrison, amazon.com

“In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.”

— Anne Frank, amazon.com

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com

“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

— W. Somerset Maugham, amazon.com

“And in that moment I swear we were infinite.”

— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”

— W. H. Auden, amazon.com

“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com

“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com

“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”

— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com

“In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, amazon.com

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

— Emily Brontë, amazon.com