Some sentences are too good to leave on the page. You read one, go back and read it again, and something in you wants to keep it where you can see it.
This shelf is for exactly that kind of writing. Ten books whose prose is so beautiful that people copy lines from them into journals, read them aloud at weddings, and hang them on the wall. A few are old, a couple are newer, and between them they cover most of the ways a sentence can be lovely: spare and exact, lush and golden, quiet and wise.
And because beautiful words belong somewhere you can see them, each book here is paired with a print of its author's own lines, from the literary art shop next door. Read the book first. Then, if a line stays with you, you'll know where to find it.
Take a book from the shelf
Before you go
If you have a moment this evening, think of a line from a book that has stayed with you for years. Not the cleverest one, the one that felt true. That line, and why it stayed, says something about what you value. Worth keeping somewhere you can see it.
