Erika Dreifus

Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Checks and pills were what remained of a grand promise, the ingredients of a mental-health-care system that had never been baked but were handed out like flour and yeast in separate packets to starving people.

Source: Jonathan Rosen, “American Madness” (The Atlantic)

Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

In every generation the faults of the Jews—and we are as full of faults as other men—have been publicized with exaggerations and lies.

Source: Herman Wouk, This Is My God

Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

I don’t think I’ve ever read anything in my life that brought me such deep happiness.

Source: Priscilla Gilman, The Critic’s Daughter: A Memoir