In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
By his forties, all he has managed to grow is a gentle sense of himself, akin to the transparent carapace of a soft-shelled crab.
Source: Andrew Sean Greer, Less
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Our ancestors’ love flows through our veins.
Source: Tanaya Winder, “Words as Seeds” (an essay in Poetry magazine)
I just didn’t manage to select one this week, folks. (I’m sorry!)
But I will be back tomorrow with some Monday Markets!
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
And that was when he realized that he was dying, and that his dying offered him a kind of freedom he’d never had before.
Source: Edwidge Danticat, “Without Inspection” (The New Yorker)
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence”project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“A person who doesn’t live in nature, the way a stone or an animal does, won’t come up with two decent lines in his entire life … “
Source: Isaac Babel, “Awakening” (trans. Maxim D. Shrayer; Tablet magazine)