“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”

“I was too shy to ask him for advice so I watched him carefully and tried to dissect everything he did. Then I would try to emulate his strengths.”

Paul Scholes (1974) English footballer

“And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“I always knew America was the place for me. In school, when the teacher would talk about America, I would daydream about coming here. I would sit for hours watching American movies. Everything about America seemed so big to me so open, so possible.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage

“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

“Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly?
The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse.
Rose Tyler: So?”

Russell T. Davies (1963) Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who

“They are afraid of nothing," I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. "Together they would brave Satan and all his legions.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

“She was beautiful, with a beauty so severe and so solitary that at first it was startling. "Ah! If only there were two of me," she thought, "one doing the talking and one listening, one living and one watching, how I would love myself. I'd envy no one."”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up