In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks us to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“My parents fought so much that the walls vibrated with rage.”
Source: Akhil Sharma, Family Life, p. 146
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks us to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“More stuff ends up on my night stand than I’ll ever read.”
Source: Michael Lewis, in the New York Times Book Review “By the Book” column.
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks us to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“You never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.”
Source: Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You (forthcoming novel). I’ve just read a digital galley–stay tuned for a Q&A with Celeste in The Practicing Writer when the book is released!
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks us to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
“She had a vexed relationship with her caps-lock key.”
Source: Nicholas Thompson, “My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter”
Another Sunday when I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, which asks others to share the best sentence(s) we’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Aside from W.W.II, work, illness, and going to the bathroom, they did everything together.
Source: Roz Chast, “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” in The New Yorker