#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.”
“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”
#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 audacious ones/who carried the red, white, and Weary Blues/on the battlefield/to save an imperfect Union.
Source: Kwame Alexander, The Undefeated (illustrations by Kadir Nelson)
#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.”
After two previous pregnancies with my Rh positive sisters, my mother’s Rh negative body had developed enough immune sensitization to read me, her third viable fetus, as a disease to be eradicated, and this confirms everything about our difficult life together, my mother and me, always embattled, always a struggle to get to live, as myself—but that’s for another essay.
Source: Dana Levin, “Appointment” (The Yale Review)
#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.”
Every loss: incalculable.
Source: Khadijah Queen, “False Dawn” (Harper’s; paywalled)