30 of the Most Beautiful Sentences in Literature: 1- “In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 2- “She wasnt doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” - J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew” 3- “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.” - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar 4- “Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.” - Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed 5- “Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 6- “What are men to rocks and mountains?” - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 7- “‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’” - Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 8- “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, A Tale of Two Cities 9- “As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.” - Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things 10- “If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.” - W. H. Auden, The More Loving One 11- And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” - John Steinbeck, East of Eden 12- “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” - William Shakespeare, Hamlet 13- “It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.” - W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage 14- “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, The History of Love 15- “In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.” - Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank 16- “The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.” - Toni Morrison, Beloved 17- “She was lost in her longing to understand.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera 18- “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, “The Awakening” 19- “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, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead 20- “The half life of love is forever.” - Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her 21- “There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” - Bram Stroker, Dracula 22- “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.” - L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables 23- “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” - Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre 24- “I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams” - W. B. Yeats, Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 25- “It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.” - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence 26- “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, The Kite Runner 27- “Journeys end in lovers meeting.” - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night 28- “It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.” - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 29- “One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” - Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices 30- “I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.” - Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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