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Sunday Sentence: Casebook

Catherine — Sun, 25 May 2014 07:28:43 +0000

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. When I thought things like that, I just stopped. I could still stop my thinking then. But not for much longer.

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Sunday Sentence: Astonish Me

Catherine — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 07:46:02 +0000

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. He is still proud of Harry, but the pride is something different than it used to be: it has been cut away from his pride in himself and left to stand on […]

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Sunday Sentence: The Ballad of a Small Player

Catherine — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 07:32:31 +0000

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. Success is irresistible. It’s like a crime scene, something that enchants the worst side of the mind.

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Sunday Sentence: Fallen Beauty

Catherine — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 08:01:17 +0000

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. Do something or don’t, and be confident in it, but don’t sulk.

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Sunday Sentence: Kinder Than Solitude

Catherine — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 08:17:34 +0000

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. The key to success, in his parents’ opinion, was the capacity to selectively live one’s life, to forget what one ought not to remember, to untangle oneself from lesser and irrelevant others, and to […]

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Sunday Sentence: On Such a Full Sea

Catherine — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:50:36 +0000

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises and unlikely details of some process or […]

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Sunday Sentence: Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

Catherine — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 18:57:08 +0000

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. There was a time I thought Ellen would always understand. But, at some point, she let go. And once I really started drowning, she became increasingly angry with me for not being able […]

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Sunday Sentence: The Apartment

Catherine — Sun, 22 Dec 2013 09:08:15 +0000

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. But now I’m going on about something I don’t want to think about. Everything human beings can imagine has been thrown at injustice, and injustice just absorbs it, and enlarges.

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Sunday Sentence: This is Between Us

Catherine — Sun, 15 Dec 2013 08:21:04 +0000

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. You got quietly sullen for a while. I could always tell your sullen quiet from your normal quiet—your sullen quiet had a buzz to it, like a television showing a tornado tearing houses […]

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Sunday Sentence: Want Not

Catherine — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 08:21:39 +0000

Sunday Sentence: The best sentence(s) from this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen. Could memories be like works of art, the great ones hung beneath metal halide lighting on stark museum walls, for daily straightening and dusting, while the shoddy ones were abandoned to attics, yard sales, […]

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