This is a list of some of the most beautifully written sentences (that I believe) to have ever existed. They are sentences that are able to put inexplicable feelings into words, and make you wish for or miss things, that you didn't before (like Adele's songs). 10 bucks if you can make it through without getting emotional.

1. “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, "A Girl I Knew"

2. "Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having, she would have waited for you?' No sir, the girl really worth having, won't wait for anybody."

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, "This Side of Paradise"

4. "We're all broken, that's how the light gets in."

—Ernest Hemingway

5. "Everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, lights, metals, were like boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me."

—Pablo Neruda

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

—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"

7. "It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in giving, but like the morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Tender is the Night"

8. “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

—Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"

9. “The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

—Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

10. "I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and that is the beginning of everything."

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, a letter defending his relationship with his wife, Zelda

11. “‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’”

—Betty Smith, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"