20 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences Ever Written In Literature
We asked our community to recommend some of the most beautiful sentences they have ever read. Here are our 20 favourites from the submissions we received:
1. “One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
— Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices
2. “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
3. “It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.”
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
4. “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.”
— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
5. “There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
— Bram Stroker, Dracula