Lisa Grimes

Reader, mostly. You can find me on Mastodon @[email protected] @williamandmary alum now @HamiltonCollege

[Lisa Grimes @lisagrimesva]

Many things are unknown.

#SundaySentence from Susanna Clarke's Piranesi

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He's mourning for his lost world. But this is one of the most beguiling music worlds he's ever created - the sound of Robert Smith raging against the darkness and refusing to quit.

#SundaySentence from @robshef's Rolling Stone review of The Cure's Songs of a Lost World.

[Lisa Grimes @lisagrimesva]

@blacklionking73 Wylding Hall, Elizabeth Hand
Scorched Grace, Margot Douaihy
Clare Dewitt and the City of the Dead, Sara Gran
A Judgement in Stone, Ruth Rendell

[Lisa Grimes @lisagrimesva]

@baumansbrain I’m already looking forward to the sequel!

[Lisa Grimes @lisagrimesva]

"Like the invisible magic that governs this wild city, the rain ties heaven to Hades. And vice versa."

#SundaySentence from Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

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But I have done with expecting any course of steady reading from Emma. She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Describes me this week.

#SundaySentence from Emma (beautifully edited by @S_Insley_H)

[Nostos @NostosLit]

- Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

[Rick Barry 📚 @RickBarry44]

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.
JOHN WILLIAMS, Augustus #SundaySentence

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A dumped goldfish has no model for what a different and better life might look like, but it finds it anyway.

#SundaySentence from How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

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And there was a gap between _early twenties_ and _late twenties_ that only people existing in bodies in their _late twenties_ understood. You could still fight god, but you’d have to ice your knees afterward.

#SundaySentence from The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

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@bjkingape @paulGtremblay Ooh, I can’t wait to read this!

[Lisa Grimes @lisagrimesva]

I wondered if I had ever not been angry.

#SundaySentence from James by Percival Everett

[Carol Ann Tack @Carolanntack]

Your soul is never a rental…it’s always a sale.

#SundaySentence from City on Fire by Don Winslow.

[Lisa Grimes @lisagrimesva]

There are many kinds of love, and not all of them are built to last past the span of one romance novel, let alone a thousand years.

#SundaySentence from The Book of Love, Kelly Link

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"Undead folks don’t have a ‘self-esteem problem’ about being undead."

#SundaySentence from My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book One, Emil Ferris

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One thing I’ve learned in a thousand moons: if it smells like bullshit, don’t swallow it.

#SundaySentence from The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

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‘Keep calm’ is just another order like ‘Shoot that man’ or Delete the rest.’ We carry on.

#SundaySentence from The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley.

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I do not waste time or language on our enemies, beloveds. But if I ever did, I would tell them that there is a river between what they see and what they know. And they don’t have the heart to cross it.

#SundaySentence or three from Hanif Abdurraqib’s There’s Always This Year

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Maybe I can put it this way: my father was a computer and my mother was a typewriter.

#SundaySentence from the story My Documents, in the collection of the same name, by Alejandro Zambra

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I’m pathologically ironic.

- Percival Everett at the Virginia Festival of the Book

#SundaySentence