@annedenoon.bsky.social"And, of course, there was a certain kind of person, one of the worst kinds of person, who seemed to live with a voice continually telling them how great they were, and who felt victimized because their perfection was not universally acknowledged."
- Sigrid Nunez, Greensleeves.*
#SundaySentence đź“š
@moodogpress.com“If you ever drive through Virginia on the new interstate highway between Christianburg and Salem, and you feel a slight dip in the paving under your wheels, then loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou drivest is Jean White’s horse.”
Annie Dillard
@occasionallyzen.bsky.socialHer country is a ghost haunting the water. Her country is a dream she remembers once having. It lies slantwise and slight.
Samantha Harvey, Orbital #SundaySentence #booksky #books #oboc #onebookonechicago
@erikadreifus.bsky.social“'There’s a difference between what the American people think and what’s true,' I said."
#SundaySentence from @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social's HOW TO EAT AN ELEPHANT.
@unixwhisperer.bsky.socialHe thought of how he might spend [days of waiting], and he wondered how he might press them into one crumpled bit of time that he could toss away. John Williams, Butcher's Crossing (1960)
@heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social"Punctuation marks dictate the message, making words seem secondary, teetering us on the edge of an Oxford comma, hesitating at a shy semicolon, reversing course with a swung dash, or sliding down slippery inclines without our having been exhorted to pause."
@christianbauman.bsky.socialI'm a shameless sucker for a good spy thriller, especially if Russians are involved. My #sundaysentence this week is from Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews: "If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one." (Went from this novel right into the sequel and it was pretty good, too.)
@carolbrisebois.bsky.social
@nancyadairb.bsky.socialSummer seemed to spill upward out of the ground in that part of the world, wet and green and smelling like mulch and earthworms, like hacked grass and hard rain.
#sundaysentence
#lunaphoenixqueen
#julieorringer
@aaknopf.bsky.social
#netgalley
@erikadreifus.bsky.socialDidn't manage to select a single #SundaySentence this week--but am still thinking about the entirety of this piece by my friend Jessamyn Hope. shredofhope.substack.com/p/i-want-my-...
@shannonfallon.com"I believe he is of [my kind];—I am sure he is—I feel akin to him—I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him."
- Jane Eyre
@harvf.bsky.social"Life is a period of sadness occasionally interrupted by tragedy." Eric Idle, IDLE IN PROVENCE: A Brief History of Thyme #sundaysentence
@unixwhisperer.bsky.socialUntil the afternoon sun pushed the shade beyond them, they lay wearily on the grassy bank of the river listening to the rustle of the water that flowed past them, smoothly, cooly, effortlessly... onward to the east. John Williams, Butcher's Crossing (1960)
@bookgaga.bsky.social"If aesthetic standards are the foundation of your sexual requirements, I learned, you have restricted yourself to a very small portion of the human race."
#SundaySentence from The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran (2023 @picadorbooks.bsky.social) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
@bjking.bsky.socialAmerican barbarism has come for every living thing on this planet and now it comes for You. -- #SundaySentence by Claire Vaye Watkins in her fierce and fabulous novel of the desert, Yellow Pine. #books
