Have you ever come across a breathtaking or hilariously absurd sentence that stops you in your tracks?
This year I tried to record some of those as a read, beautiful, witty, powerful sentences. And these are a few of them…
“It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain.” - Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“I do not think that it is naive to think that it is the tiny, particular acts of love and joy which are going to swing the balance.” - Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet
“Winter spreads out across the town like a relative with slightly too much self-confidence…” - Fredrick Bachman, Anxious People
“I go down to the shore in the morning / and depending on the hour the waves / are rolling in or moving out, / and I say, oh, I am miserable, / what shall— / what should I do? And the sea says / in its lovely voice: / Excuse me, I have work to do.” - Mary Oliver, Devotions
“The point of the nights is that if you spend time with each other — if we really listen in the parlors of our minds and look at each other as we were meant to be seen — then we would fall in love.” - Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
“Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive.” - Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
“The only difference between everybody and nobody is all the shoes.” - Amor Towels, A Gentleman In Moscow
“When all was said and done, the endeavors that most modern men saw as urgent (such as appointments with bankers and the catching of trains), probably could have waited. While those they deemed frivolous (such as cups of tea and friendly chats) had deserved their immediate attention.” - Amor Towels, A Gentleman In Moscow
“Two empty hours were a sinus infection bred.” - Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections