I have journals everywhere to write these down. I should have some sort of category or categories with my journals, but I do not. Sometimes when I am driving home and hear a phrase in a song, I will pull over and type them out on my notes in my phone. 

Here are some favorite phrases or sentences. I have some favorite words, but let’s start with phrases and sentences. This is from only one notebook and not in any particular order. I have many many more. Too many to pick from.

“Each tree smattered with silver” Rowling, Prisoner of Azkaban

“Everything was suffused with a mysterious gold light.” Rowling, Goblet of Fire

“Sickle moon overhead” Not sure

“The breeze floated through the house like a cool whisper” Denton The Hideaway

“The world could tumble and change radically in less than two days with one less person.” Not sure

“The week unspooled slowly with hot days and muggy, breathless nights” Anderson Chains

“Huge calibrated beats across space” Erdrich “The Leap”

“Behind them, a bone-colored moon hung in the sky. The husband’s face had become as pale as the moon hovering above.” Hosseini The Kite Runner

“A misty sun sent its pale light between the arms of the mountain, and beams of gold fell on the pavement at the threshold” Tolkien The Hobbit

…were married, on a clear, crisp day where the mists had lifted from the hollers by dawn and the birds sang loudly about the importance of a blue sky and squabbled noisily on the branches” Moyes Giver of Stars

“My heart folds in on itself and my body warms in a slow wave from my toes to my face” Buxbaum Hope and Other Punch Lines

“Sometimes [Daisy] and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.” Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Do you have some favorite quotes? It’s a well known adage that reading, reading, and more reading makes you a better writer.

Keep looking for those great phrases and keep writing!