"This strange, multicoloured and astonishing world which we explore - where space is granular, time does not exist and things are nowhere - is not something that estranges us from our true selves, for this is what our natural curiosity reveals to us about the place of our dwelling."

from 'Seven Brief Lessons on Physics', by Carlo Rovelli

#SundaySentence #Nature

#SundaySentence #FreePalestine

“Is brave part of growing up?”

Rachel Corrie, aged 3

from Craig Corrie's introduction to 'Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie'

#SundaySentence #FreePalestine #RIP

#SundaySentence #Resist

"The heart drew lines between love and fear, and in its constant travel between the two it knew all there was to know."

--Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind #SundaySentence

“Words can do anything,” she said. “A kind word can fix a person’s spirit. A cruel one can break a person’s heart. Wicked words have caused wars, and honest words have made peace. Why shouldn’t they be able to heal?”

- Lynda Cohen Loigman, *The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

* I’m really loving this book.

#SundaySentence #bookstodon

"At least a human empire only eats a person from the heart outward.”

--A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine #SundaySentence

"Right then, at that moment, I needed to hear from someone, anyone, because I was beginning to feel like I didn’t really exist, like I was some insubstantial ghost."

--from the story "Lake of Souls" in Ann Leckie's eponymous collection #SundaySentence

"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical, and I was never accomplished at that."

--The Magus by John Fowles #SundaySentence

"Reconciled to being who we are, while carrying inside us the idea of who are not, we represent identities that cannot be defined by a single word, passport, identity card, entry pass." -- from 'Kin' by Miljenko Jergović; trans. Russell Scott Valentino

#SundaySentence #reading @bookstodon

"Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing."

--Muriel Spark, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie #SundaySentence

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