Sensational Sentences, Part Seven
Photo by Ellen Blum Barish
As long as I have been a reader, I’ve been smitten with sentences. A single sentence can swallow us into a book or a writer and for these reasons I feel compelled to share them. These wordy gems are pulled from some of my favorite books this year.
“Name your hopelessness a quiet hollow, a place you go to heal, a den you hug, sweetheart, instead of a grave…. instead of depression, try calling it hibernation.”
Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
“The highway carried a promise, always; it was going to take us someplace.”
Grant Faulker, Something Out There in the Distance
“Married Love: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary: When, to present me a ring, he drops to one knee, it cracks.”
Beth Ann Fennelly, The Irish Goodbye
“The beauty and the suffering are equally true.”
Geraldine Brooks, Memorial Days
“Nothing made me forget the world like reading did.”
Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me
“…as someone who has made their living through words, she has made me consider the dignity and persuasiveness of silence.”
Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare: A Memoir
“What does it mean to receive an ancient tradition, and make it our own?”
Alicia Jo Rabins, When We’re Born We Forget Everything
“Trauma is a narrative problem.”
Emily LaBarge, Dog Days
“I was born a tryhard – a Tracy Flick; an urgently-searching terrior, always on the hunt for a mouse I’d never find in some living room.”
Laura Mayer, Tryhard: A Cautionary Tale of Clocking In and Spinning Out
“The lure was the spell of ancient verses, the emotion of the music, the tug of a monumental story.”
Angela Buchdahl, Heart of a Stranger
Wishing you a fall filled with sensational sentences.
Not shown: Memorial Days, Dog Days, Raising Hare and Mother Mary Comes to Me as they are borrowed or on loan.
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