A Tooter"In fact, having begun to feel indignant at Sixteenth Street, by the time he reached Twenty-First Street he was practically in a lather."
The Ballad of Timothy Touchett
Amor Towles
#SundaySentence #AmorTowles #bookstodon
Vicki Ziegler"The late sun burning close and slow waves coming in -
the sea's mysterious lit wine of touch
on the sand, slipping away glittering
in scattered glasslike grains for an instant,
and returning again; if we belong
to each other, we belong to that touch."
#SundaySentence (and bonus #TodaysPoem)
The Beginnings of Stars by Russell Thornton from Two Songs (2026 Harbour Publishing) https://harbourpublishing.com/collections/russell-thornton/products/9781998526574
Patch ZircherUlysses performs the rites that will grant him access to the Underworld in Homer's Odyssey:
#SundaySentence
Moo Dog Press“…as if by magic, the whole graveyard of dark lichen-clad stones suddenly lights up as the dying sun strikes the stone faces and one is suddenly confronted by an army of staring almond eyes and uplifted wings.”
James A. Slater
#SundaySentence
This week's #SundaySentence is a paragraph but if you've ever shopped the the streets in small cities or out-of-the-way neighborhoods, you might find it pleasing.
From Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge:
"Were writers who embodied and illuminated their times eventually condemned by the more enlightened future they themselves helped bring into being?"
#SundaySentence from The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (2025 Knopf Canada) https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/review-loneliness-sonia-and-sunny-kiran-desai
Chuckling Duck"Bob, the shrug is a useful tool, and seductive in its way; but it is only one arrow in the quiver and we mustn't overuse it lest we give the false impression of vacancy of mind, do you see my point?"
The Librarianist
Patrick DeWitt
#SundaySentence #bookstodon #PatrickDeWitt
john rakestraw"with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing."
--Lionel Trilling
Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎"Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in conversation together, three notes suddenly making a chord."
#SundaySentence is from Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/90d958bd-da10-49ba-b7bc-2c495f2e3da2
