#sundaysentence

“People I know, they read poetry to ease the shock and pain, give them a kind of space, something beautiful in language,” she said, “to bring comfort or composure.” (42)
#SundaySentence

Don DeLillo / Falling Man

In this household, forgiveness is more of pretending to forget.

“Mother’s Mother’s Daughter” in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol. 2

#SundaySentence

Every artist sometimes has the problem of not distinguishing between what passes for everyday normality and creativity-- which is also everyday, and not exceptional. It's a well-known fact that the artist who sits around waiting for "inspiration" dies in the waiting.
--Carlos Fuentes
#SundaySentence

For my #SundaySentence this week, New Yorker writer Jill Lepore’s thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11:
“The day’s events are measured in minutes, a ticking clock…the grief in years, a beating heart.”

His childhood dreams had been so bright, he had hoped for so much, it couldn’t be true that he was a nobody, although, on the other hand, what kind of somebody spends the best years of his life swearing at a photocopier?
#SundaySentence from Pastoralia (short story “The Falls”) by George Saunders. 

We form stories about everything. But how rarely we ever know the truth, even about our own lives.

Heather, Caitlin Mullen #SundaySentence #booksky #books

"He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of the morning" — Kingsley Amis, "Lucky Jim"

#SundaySentence

“What’s wrong with cynicism?”
“It’s a dullard’s shortcut.”
#sundaysentence
#dodgecity
#patrickdewitt
@eccobooks.bsky.social
#netgalley

“The bouillon cubes of discrete human-like intellects thus melt into an algorithmic soup.”

― Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence

#SundaySentence

"I am not quite ready to face reality unfiltered."
#SundaySentence
At the Edge of the Woods, Kathryn Bromwich.

"The human superpower is our imagination."--Jeanette Winterson #SundaySentence

"yet is it really so
strange to think you
have a right to sit
in the light of day
without violence?"

#SundaySentence (and bonus #TodaysPoem)
Frociaggine by Kirby (@itsakirby.bsky.social) from Fairy (2026 @palimpsestpress.bsky.social) palimpsestpress.ca/books/fairy-...