Sunday Sentence

A contribution for the “Sunday Sentence” project, a sentence I've read this week, no explanation or commentary.

"Although it is not quite grammatical in English, it can be phrased in three simple words: "How to live." Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer.

Sunday Sentence

A contribution for the  “Sunday Sentence” project, a sentence I've read this week, no explanation or commentary.

"But I am a scientist, and like all scientists, I am trained to deflect heat rays, escape space dragons, and safely land a lifeboat capsule on the cooler parts of the sun." M. T. Anderson, He Laughed With His Other Mouths, A Pals in Peril Tale.

Sunday Sentence

A contribution for the  “Sunday Sentence” project, a sentence I've read this week, no explanation or commentary.

"Alien abduction is part of the American poetry of loneliness." M. T. Anderson, He Laughed With His Other Mouths, A Pals in Peril Tale. 

Sunday Sentence

"Writing is about finding out who you are, what you have to say that is not the same as what everyone else has to say, and how to express it in the strongest possible terms."  The Point of Writing by Meg Rosoff at Writer Unboxed.

Sunday Sentence

I heard about Sunday Sentence from Erika Dreifus. It's supposed to be a sharing of a "best sentence" read during the week, without context. It seems like a quick and easy way to do a little promo for a book.

I started to write some explanation of how I came to choose this, but...no context!!! So:

"It wouldn't take much digging for an interested party to ascertain the...depths of abnormal...upon which she'd built this life."  Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor.