Once again, my Sunday Sentence(s) this week, presented without further comment and as inspired by
Fobbit author David Abrams at
The Quivering Pen, is from Claire Messud's
The Woman Upstairs:
Suddenly, there's an opportunity, an opening, a person or people you couldn't have imagined, and -- elation! -- it feels as though you've found the pot of gold, when you'd thought all the gilt was gone from this world forever. It's enough, for a time -- maybe even for a long time -- to make you forget that you were ever angry, that you ever knew what anger was at all.
Great choice! I'm really enjoying this book now, too... so many possiblities for a Sunday Sentence. It was hard to narrow down to just one!
ReplyDeleteVery hard to narrow down. I could probably quote this novel for the next three months.
DeleteI am with you 100%! If I still underlined in books (can't now that I'm a librarian!) the majority of that book would be covered in pen. So powerful.
ReplyDeleteSince it's my own copy, I don't feel bad about underlining or leaving notes. But there's also something so satisfying in copying phrases that strike a chord into a chapbook.
ReplyDeleteI'm starting to use the Tumblr account for some of those phrases.