Some of the English language's most used phrases, words, and quotes have come from books. Many books contain some of the most beautiful words ever written, and this is a list of just a few examples.
1. “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.” - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2. “And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
3. “...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” - William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
4. “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea
5. “No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
6. “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
7. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” - Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul
8. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
9. “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” - Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist
10. “Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” - Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
11. “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.” - C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
