I am made of electricity and regret.

Audrey Niffenegger, Life Out of Order

#SundaySentence #booksky

"It may be difficult to define civilisation, but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism" — Kenneth Clark, "Civilisation"

#SundaySentence

Oh @naomialderman.bsky.social my friend, you've outdone yourself with this beautiful, sad, funny, unexpected novel. My #sundaysentence this week: "After enough of this, a person gets to the point where they would like to reach into heaven and wring the neck of God."

A #SundaySentence from Jason Mott's "People Like Us."

I don’t think I ever told her, and maybe she’s dead now, but I think that maybe she might have changed my life.

“Beautiful, Dangerous Things” by Gabriela Stiteler in BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE 2026

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"He attached himself to his duty and, during the interstices of time, he innocently performed his rigid daily rituals, without which he would certainly have Fallen Apart."

Nancy Lemann, in Lives of the Saints

#SundaySentence

"How 'blessed' can a country be if it unleashes weapons of annihilation on the vulnerable bodies of children?"
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World

#SundaySentence

There is such beauty in this world, such hideousness.

Vincent Yu / Seek Immediate Shelter
#SundaySentence

“Nearly everyone had left for the dance floor—bursitis in their hips, plantar fasciitis in their heels, they rocked back and forth like creaky boats.”

— Ann Patchett
#SundaySentence

"In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment."
#SundaySentence The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Murakami

“He often dreams of the nine dogs of his life and idly wonders if he’ll see them again. He’s not counting on it but it’s another nice idea.”
Jim Harrison, “An Old Man”
#SundaySentence

It could have been a scene in a Norman farmhouse twenty-five years ago, with candles burning on the tables, bottles of red wine arranged along damaged shelves, the chill in the room, the high ceilings, the heavy ornate cross on the wall. Michael Herr, Dispatches (1968)

#SundaySentence #VietnamWar

"Outside the sun shone bright and mean."

#SundaySentence from The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013 @littlebrown.bsky.social and Company) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gol...

I understood that the reason people moved to the suburbs to raise their kids had little to do with the schools—it was because they had to stop seeing how much fun the childless were having.

#SundaySentence from the gorgeous new short story collection, One Sun Only, by Camille Bordas.
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My #SundaySentence this week comes from this article in Talk of the Town from the Sept 28, 2026 issue about a dunk star processing his losses with writing poetry:
“Let me be deep and weird for a minute.” ✍🏼🏀