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.”
A few decades ago, in another century,
the refugee would have been me,
in another few years perhaps it will be.
Source: “Portbou” by Maia Evrona
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.”
We were European Jews, even in America, which is to say that catastrophic things had happened, and might happen again.
Source: Nicole Krauss, “Switzerland” (The New Yorker)
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.”
Sometimes, they’ll be in the bath or doing their homework, and I’ll hear them saying the words under their breath, the melody as soothing as a lullaby.
Source: Rachel Beanland, “How to Hang a Mezuzah” (Creative Nonfiction; the essay isn’t posted online)
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.”
Just her, in the big empty house, with the busts and the pigs and bushels of lavender, her fire burning, the most glorious sunsets she’s ever seen.
Source: Sara Lippmann, “The Polish Girl” (Squalorly)
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.”
(more…)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.”
“If you’re reluctant to weep,” he said once, “you won’t live a full and complete life.”
Source: Lee Martin, “Seven Lessons I Learned from Ray Bradbury”