It is very clear that words have the power to change the way we think. There are certain phrases that hit hard, many of these phrases found in beautiful pieces of literature. Here, I pay tribute to the 11 most beautiful lines that I have come across while reading:
1. “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
-Stephen Chbosky, Perks of Being a Wallflower
2. “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his own life answering.”
-Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
3. “Do I dare / Disturb the universe?”
-T. S. Elliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
4. “She was lost in her longing to understand.”
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
5. “I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone’s heart. 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”
6. “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”
7. “The cadence of suffering has begun."
- Cesare Pavese
8. "I
am
in
Pieces.”
-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
9. “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
-John Green, Papertowns
10. “On that cold night in January it all slipped into place for me and she became my everything and my everyone. My music, my sun, my words, my logic, my confusion, my flaw.”
-Julia Murphy, Sides Effects May Vary
11. “[She] had always suffered a from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.”
-Robin McKinely, The Blue Sword
Despite the many authors and concepts, each of these lines has something in common: they are power and beautiful... and they most definitely deserve to be shared.
