These are the 12 sweetest sentences

Recently, one sentence suddenly went around that had it all: loving, sharp, and just dramatic enough to make you think right away: yes, this. It is by Arthur Japin and you have probably heard it unless you were hiding under a duvet, shutting the world out and rabarberrabarberen away from the storm, that is.

It sounds as follows:

‘This is the only thing that matters, darling, that someone sees more in you than you knew was there to be seen.’

For me, that was the starting signal to highlight the sweetest lines from literature and music. So: I asked on Instagram for your most beautiful lines and there were pearls that made you spontaneously open your notes app. I’ll start with my favorites.

1. So lucky to be loving you – Chet Baker
2. If you didn't already exist, I would invent you – Ramses Shaffy
3. If you leave me, may I come with you? – Acda en de Munnik
4. He was my north, my south, my east, my west
   My working week and my Sunday rest
   My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song
   I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong – W. H. Auden
5. Even your shadow can blind me – Henk Westbroek
6. Do you know me better than I do – Huub Oosterhuis
7. For more than I actually want to admit
   She makes the difference – De Poema’s
8. God only knows what I’d be without you – The Beach Boys
9. Ever thine
   Ever mine
   Ever ours – Beethoven
10. Since the day that I met you
    I stopped being afraid – Chef’Special
11. If I have to be something I have never been
    May I then be with you? – Claudia de Breij
12. Let the winds of dawn that blow
    Softly round your dreaming head
    Such a day of welcome show – W. H. Auden

This is a selection from so much beauty that you sent my way.

I wish you someone to whom you say these lines.