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10 Beautiful Quotes From Literature

These are some of the beautiful things that stick with us forever.

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I think one of the best things about reading books is finding those beautiful lines that seem to stick with you forever. I love stumbling upon a beautiful line that I simply have to pause and write down. There are some really beautiful lines that I believe many people admire, so I'll share my favorites with you.

"Let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."

-J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

"At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."

-Willa Cather, My Antonia

"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

"How wild it was, to let it be."

-Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

"Standing on the fringes of life...offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor."

-Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"Where there's life there's hope."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"Let the wild rumpus start!"

-Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

"It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset."

-S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

"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

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