The 22 Most Beautiful Lines I Read in 2022
Gut-wrenching and lovely, poignant and sharp, these are the lines that stuck with me this year
I am back with my annual roundup of sentences I read this year that stopped me in my tracks. Sentences I underlined, bookmarked, and thought about for days and weeks after.
In no particular order, here are the 22 most beautiful lines (occasionally I cheat and include 2–3) I read in 2022:
She was at an age when the future adult rattles the child’s bones like the bars of a cage.
Great Circle | Maggie Shipstead
People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.
My Dark Vanessa | Kate Elizabeth Russell
When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There’s nothing else.
The Sentence | Louise Erdrich
Death always thinks of us eventually. The trick is to find the joy in the interim, and make good use of the days we have.
These Precious Days | Ann Patchett
Where does music go when it’s not playing? — she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.
