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#SundaySentence

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Vicki Ziegler<p>"And for so many people these days, they’ve never so much as attempted to dip in a ladle, let alone dive down into those uncomfortable waters made accessible through boredom."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@craigmod" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>craigmod</span></a></span> in LitHub <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yjynxmw5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/yjynxmw5</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
john rakestraw<p>"We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the breathing, bleeding place we guard so carefully in daily life" (Andrea Barrett, 'Dust and Light,' p. 55).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
MardraS<p>Another one of my favorite First Lines<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a></p>
MardraS<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a></p>
handmade ghost<p>“They’re giving us what we want on a plate so we won’t start looking in cupboards.”</p><p>from Unraveller by Frances Hardinge <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a></p>
Vicki Ziegler<p>"This morning early, as the feelings started pouring in<br>while the awareness was still bright, I saw<br>how ordinary it is/I am to have all these feelings."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> (and bonus <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TodaysPoem</span></a>)<br>Where I've Been by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@ronnabloom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ronnabloom</span></a></span> (2024 Canthius) collected in Best Canadian Poetry 2025 (Biblioasis) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/bpamv6ex" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/bpamv6ex</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
MardraS<p>This makes ya’ think. <br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a></p>
Vicki Ziegler<p>"The hands of the first</p><p>person to touch you will not recoil from<br>a horrorshow of unmasked sobs, but those</p><p>well-travelled hands will soften<br>under tears that welcome them anew."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> (and bonus <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TodaysPoem</span></a>)<br>In the Absence of Another's Touch, Here's a Fiftieth Birthday by Kevin Spenst from A Bouquet Brought Back From Space (2024 <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@anvilpress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>anvilpress</span></a></span>) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2aa5krr2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/2aa5krr2</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
handmade ghost<p>"There is grammar that is ruled like a kingdom, and grammar that is ruled like a composition book, and there is always, always the wild, unruly grammar of ballads and riddles, and this is the grammar of Arcadia, which breaks the real into the true."</p><p>from The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a></p>
MardraS<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> from The Economist</p>
john rakestraw<p>“Any body politic governed by a sovereign ruler accountable to nobody is in the hands of a sick man.”</p><p>Simone Weil, in “The Need for Roots.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/simoneweil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>simoneweil</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tyrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyrant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a></p>
Vicki Ziegler<p>"I love to think that these old languages were instilling the idea that "kindness" should be our basic state of existence; of being family with all mankind, that mankind is capable of being the gorgeous, tender beast I believe deep down we can be."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> from The Harder I Fight The More I Love You by Neko Case (2025 Grand Central Publishing) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/42386p8t" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/42386p8t</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
john rakestraw<p>"How are we to speak of these ‘common things’, how to track them down rather, how to flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, finally, speak of what is, of what we are" (Georges Perec, "The Infra-Ordinary").</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/journal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/quotidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotidian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Georges_Perec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georges_Perec</span></a></p>
MardraS<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a></p>
armadillosoft<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sundaySentence</span></a></p><p>There's no kissing on a dead planet. -- Hannah Einbinder</p>
Vicki Ziegler<p>"A patron came to the Reference Desk at 3:04 this afternoon to report that a man was standing in the street in front of the library, directing traffic with a tea bag."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> from The Incident Report by Martha Baillie (2009 Pedlar Press) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/mt35z2ru" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/mt35z2ru</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
john rakestraw<p>“I have no problem with the idea of an online social network; I just don’t want to buy a sense of community with my attention to ads, on a platform that implicitly encourages me to advertise myself, all while my data gets collected.”</p><p>—Jenny Odell, “Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock,” pp. 89f</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a></p>
Lisa<p>Where have I been all these years? I’ve been inside your head, touching things.</p><p>Christopher Bollen, Havoc<br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Vicki Ziegler<p>"It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your head or heart, say *This is happiness*, because of the simple truth that you were alive to say it."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> from This is Happiness by Niall Williams (2019 Bloomsbury Publishing) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/3c57nxmn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/3c57nxmn</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Vicki Ziegler<p>"She would work with a burning cigarette held out ballerina-style in one hand, a tower of ash she didn't need to look at building nicely while she dusted, or performed a slow-motion version of same, the dust in no danger, until the tower was certain to fall, and at the last moment, as though it were a smoking extension of herself, she would bring the cigarette to her small mouth and suck like the damned."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SundaySentence</span></a> <br>This is Happiness<br>Niall Williams<br>2019 Bloomsbury<br><a href="https://tinyurl.com/3ydp2dey" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/3ydp2dey</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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