And there is something incredibly... romantic about a well constructed phrase.
So here are some of the phrases, sentences, anything really, that I think are beautiful enough to try and share with the world. Enjoy.
Television
"Peter, I remember William Bell. I remember crossing over to bring you back. I remember Jacksonville, and seeing you shimmer the first time we kissed. I remember you walking to the Machine and getting inside and being scared you were going to die. I remember it. I remember us. I remember everything."
-Olivia
Fringe: Episode 4.13 A Better Human Being
On Dying:
(Screams)
"That's right, honey. Let it all out, 'cause there's no room for that where we're going."
"Oh, this fucking sucks."
-Grams
True Blood: Episode 4.12 And When I Die
Doctor "That's you, from the future. Serving time for a murder you probably can't remember. My murder.
River "Why would you do that? Make me watch?
"So that you know this is inevitable. And you are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven."
"Please, my love. Please, please. Just run."
"Can't."
"Time can be rewritten."
"Don't you dare."
Doctor Who: Episode 6.13 The Wedding of River Song
Because, Summer. I like you - this much.
- Seth Cohen
The OC: Episode 1.10
And we hurt each other. It is horrible how we hurt each other.
- Amy
Everwood: Episode 2.22
One of these days, you're going to have to stop hating what you are.
- Joseph
Moonlight
Because I love her. And I can't make her happy.
- Chuck Bass
Gossip Girl: Episode 2.24
"Do you like her? More than me?"
"Jude, you can't ask me that."
"I'm asking."
- Jude and Tommy
Instant Star
When a woman gives birth to a crack baby, you do not buy her a puppy.
- Emily Gilmore
Gilmore Girls
Movies
For all tine, they'd say it was our love, brought down a kingdom.
Tristan - Tristan + Isolde
A love so real that even after you're dead it still hurts.
Must Love Dogs
Books
I stare at Tobey. He looks back at me with such an intensity I expect the glass to shatter.
I press my hand against his window. He presses his hand on the other side of mine.
For a while, we stay like that. With our hands pressed together, separated by glass.
When It Happens - Susane Colassanti
"Names are forged in Heaven." -Allegra
"Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then... By maybe weakness is a strength of a kind." -Kingsley
The Van Alen Legacy - Melissa de la Cruz
"Tell me one thing," said Harry. "Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?" Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure. "Of course this is happening inside your head, Harry. But why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
The green eyes found the black.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
But it's too late, I'm slipping, I'm gone, he's gone, and the moment curls away and back on itself like a flower folding up for the night.
My heart aches frantically for a second as I think of all the time I wasted, seconds and hours spun out of my fingertips forever like snow into the dark.
Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver
There was a lot of empty time in which to miss her.
Where She Went - Gayle Foreman
"If you tell me you are not troubled, I will call you a liar. So what will you do?"
"I will be troubled, and keep my vows."
"And King Harren learned that thick walls and high towers are small use against dragons. For dragons fly."
A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe of the terrible power of the things they carried.
The Things They Carried - Time O'Brien
Plays & Poems
And the princess, she just stops. I just stop. And it's like I've been here all my life. And I begin to see some piece of something, something big as the whole night sky, heavy and full. And inside the dark, inside the inside, I see all these lights, thousands and thousands of lights. And I'm thinking to myself, how beautiful they are. And I'm so close I can almost touch them, so close, I can't even tell where I stop, and where they begin.
Polaroid Stories - Naomi Iuzuki
Trip no further, pretty sweeting
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
Twelfth Night, or What You Will - William Shakespeare
Doubt that the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth be a liar. But never doubt I love.
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die. Like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume.
It is enough I may but call her, "Mine."
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
The Old Astronomer to His Pupil - Sarah Williams
We believe in the life of the world to come. Amen.
Church Prayer
Songs
So who's going to watch you die?
What Sarah Said - Death Cab for Cutie
Don't be afraid. You were made to go out and get her. Remember to let her into your heart.
Hey Jude - The Beatles
You keep the air in my lungs, floating along as a melody comes.
How I Go - Yellowcard
I can't live, I can't breathe. Unless you do this with me...
The Adventure - Angels and Airwaves
You put your arms around me, and I believe that it's easier for you to let me go. You put your arms around me and I'm home.
Arms - Christina Perri
Oh, my sweet Amelia. Where you go, you go too far. I can't follow where you go cause it's too dark.
Sweet Amelia - Ben Montague
People
Everything is always okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Unknown
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
We ourselves will be remembered as a collective for what we did, and failed to do. Together.
- John Green
For small creatures, such as we, the vastness is only bearable through love.
- Carl Sagan
Viva Cristo Real
- Mexican Missionary
EWW! Pedophilia!
- KMacK
I look in your eyes and all I can think and all I can feel is, 'Of Course.'
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