Sentences that sing
Beautiful, devasting sentences of all kinds
Sentences that sing
David Sedaris first met Dawn in the front hall of their dormitory at Kent State when he was 19, and she was a year younger. “When people ask how I know Dawn, I sometimes say, ‘She was my girlfriend my second year of college,’ ” Sedaris writes, in a new essay. “I always worry, though, that it makes her look dumb.” It was a time before Reagan and... See more
instagram.com“Admire the world for never ending on you” — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
“I can’t tell whether this is so obvious it doesn’t merit mentioning, or so fundamental it’s hard to see.”
Cate Hall
https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/are-you-a-jerk-or-a-liar
“The colours of Christmas have been exterminated and New Year resolutions are seeping away in to grey and hopeless damp. No colour anywhere. Then to the sound of trumpets in thrusts March. Triumphant. Purple fields, the trees still black and naked, the green shoots of life piercing and rising-up through the earth. It is sexy, this surge of sap.
... See moreI am still here and still mud, but all full of footprints and deep, deep holes and tracks and traces and changes. I have been changed. You change me. Do not take me for granite.
Ursula K. Le Guin — ‘Being taken for granite’
“First you stole my heart, then you stole the duvet”
Via Jess Pan
Who I am is certainly part of how I look and vice versa. I want to know where I begin and end, what size I am, and what suits me. People who say the body is unimportant floor me. How can they believe that? I don’t want to be a disembodied brain floating in a glass jar in a sci-fi movie, and I don’t believe I’ll ever be a disembodied spirit floating
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