#SundaySentence
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.”
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#SundaySentence
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.”
All vows are cancelled now,
all words undone like chains
that snap, their lockets smashed.
Source: Grace Schulman, “Kol Nidrei: September 2001” (Michigan Quarterly Review)
(With thanks to Elizabeth Edelglass for the reminder.)
#SundaySentence
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.”
The teenage years are an interminable parade of someday and soon, hour after hour of wishing you could fast-forward to life’s good parts.
Source: James Tate Hill, Blind Man’s Bluff: A Memoir (W.W. Norton and Company)
#SundaySentence
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 do not remember specifically what the guide said about the people kept in these rooms, but I remember how his words poured concrete into my chest.
Source: Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
#SundaySentence
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.”
Moshe spoke only Moroccan Arabic and had no formal education, just Torah and years of living by his wits in the marketplaces around Agadir.
Source: Matti Friedman, “Building Israel’s Dust City” (Tablet)