Politicians always butting in where leaders are needed.

#SundaySentence
Owlsight
Mercedes Lacket

“You are responsible. It’s when we stop feeling responsible for each other, for the people we know we can affect, that we become the barbarians.”

#SundaySentence
Mercedes Lackey
Owlsight

A poem has served history well by remaining a blank sheet.

Ian McEwan #sundaysentence

The cover of Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, featuring the spines of various books with the painted faces of two women peeking out from book-sized gaps

"the critics who shaped our modern idea of the novel in English so frequently dismissed women writers that the systematic excising has a name. It's called The Great Forgetting."
- Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney

#SundaySentence

My father's like an old cracked cup now that won't hold water.
- Sebastian Barry, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

#sundaysentence

Above, in the high cold night, the wind goes swinging past, indifferent, liplessly mournful. It frightens me, makes me feel lost, dropped on this little perch of town and abandoned.

#SundaySentence from As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross.

#booksky💙📚 #amreading

The cover image features a hand reaching down holding a glass bell jar partially over what appears to be a male torso and genitals, sculpted as if out of wax and burning as a candle. The cover also features praise from author Chuck Palahniuk.

After all, there are certainly poisonous ways in which the living can torment and exhaust the dead. --- @ericlarocca.com in Wretch, this week's #SundaySentence for me. #Booksky #horror #queerlit

#SundaySentence #velshi
Mercedes Lackey
Steadfast

But these are the days of war, and the war throws up all inhabitants of the earth in strange places, rearranging and re-siting its creatures.
- Sebastian Barry, The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

#SundaySentence

"I wanted, in this horrible moment, to remind people that what the far right is doing globally, I think, is largely backlash. A new world is being born, and they’re basically trying to abort it. Which is a little ironic, given their views on abortion.”

Rebecca Solnit
#SundaySentence (s)

I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to ever write about anything else.
#SundaySentence
#FirstLine

Steve Martin
An Object of Beauty

"- and for six hundred dollars a month, he told Sunny, he could live here easy."

#SundaySentence 2/2
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (2025 Knopf Canada)

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai Hogarth Review by Walter Cummins When I read The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny I hadn’t known Kiran Desai had devoted twenty years to creating the novel, but I suspected a very long devotion to it…

"He lived on a jungle plot that had a resident toad - large and warty, the kind you could lick for hallucinogenic effects ..."

#SundaySentence 1/2
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (2025 Knopf Canada) calirb.com/the-loneline...

#sundaysentence #thearrow #ginachun
And as the sun climbs over the lip of the sky… gold filling the corners of the apartment, you begin to understand that there is only this moment, and then the next, and then the next, and that the only thing to do in the meantime is keep on living.

"I do want extra sauce on everything, all the time, always, but I have learned that what you want and what you need are often different entities. ... I want Kevin Costner in Bull Durham, I need Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard."

Zahra Tangorra, EXTRA SAUCE (out 4/15)
#SundaySentence

She had just wanted to know what it was like to brush up against the dazzling future again.

“Between the Shadow and the Soul”

BRAWLER by Lauren Groff

#SundaySentence

Children are all too often found languishing alone in their bedrooms, direct messaging their friends, which not only reduces the likelihood of their being covered in leeches but also vastly decreases their chances of discovering anything at all.

#SundaySentence via Sarah Wildman's latest beautiful essay. www.erikadreifus.com/2026/03/sund...

Quote context: Siddhartha's enlightenment, inspired by the river, while working as a ferryman.

Hermann Hesse (Swiss, 1877-1962) Source: Lapham's Quarterly (no attribution)

#SundaySentence

"Above all, he learned from it [the river] how to listen, to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinions."

- Hermann Hesse, c. 1922

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas..
- Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward Angel

#sundaysentence

"[A] UC Santa Cruz biologist had discovered elevated levels of radiation in fish swimming among the 47,500 barrels of nuclear waste that the Navy had dumped in a 540-square-mile area around the Farrolons between 1946 and 1970." - Susan Casey, The Devil's Teeth (2005)

#SundaySentence

“Now she imagined her beautiful, wounded heart as a ripe bunch of grapes from which to extract some essence…to make visible what had been plunged into invisibility, without so much as a sign or shriek.”
#SundaySentence once more from Cialente’s A Very Cold Winter.📚❤️🍇

#SundaySentence

He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Things Fall Apart
~Chinua Achebe

An Excerpt from James Baldwin’s Another Country: Bookmarked, by Kim McLarin - Ig Publishing I once sat on a panel with a Very Important Poet, a former US laureate. The event was a fundraiser; our job was to sit pretty before an audience and be interviewed by several high school students, asp...

“But there is a difference in the reception, a critical one; what’s bread to you is water to me.”

Kim McLarin

#SundaySentence

A tree with an extensive network of roots on top of the soil

“The roots of individual words reach out and intermesh, their stems lean and criss-cross, and their outgrowths branch and clasp.” —Robert Macfarlane in The Language of Trees, edited by
Katie Holten
#SundaySentence #BlueBrewBooks

I love Kelly Braffet, and this second in the series was even better than The Unwilling. I hope she does a third. My #sundaysentence this week: "Korsa tried to parse how anyone could know that a child needed to be taken care of and not -- take care of them."

“I wonder if I am alone in feeling that Texas is a place for grieving.” Colm Toíbín, “Barton Springs” in THE NEWS FROM DUBLIN #sundaysentence

All English stories get bogged down in whether or not the furniture is socially and aesthetically acceptable.

– a #SundaySentence and snippet of literary criticism from A.S. Byatt's The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye.

"Language is the soul's ozone layer, and we thin it at our peril" — Sven Birkerts, "The Gutenberg Elegies"

#SundaySentence

"(hate) is an expensive emotion, hating requires a fuck load of caring, I'd rather not..." - Johnny Depp

#sundaysentence

I stopped at the big old cedar tree standing at the side of the freeway... the tree was older than the history of cinema, in fact, when it had been planted, trains, planes and automobiles had not been invented yet.
- Once, Wim Wenders

( A really nice photography book. )

#sundaysentence