Where have I been all these years? I’ve been inside your head, touching things.
Christopher Bollen, Havoc
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"The administration is conflating violence with success.". - Ben Friedman
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/06/world/us-progress-houthi-militants/
The Japan Times · U.S. progress against resilient Houthi militants remains murky
"It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your head or heart, say *This is happiness*, because of the simple truth that you were alive to say it."
#SundaySentence from This is Happiness by Niall Williams (2019 Bloomsbury Publishing) https://tinyurl.com/3c57nxmn
What Cathy Read Next... · Book Review – This Is Happiness by Niall Williams ‘Life is a comedy, with sad bits’About the Book After dropping out of the seminary, seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe finds himself back in Faha, a small Irish parish where nothing ever changes, including the ever-falling rain. But on…
"He supposed there were some people somewhere who had some control over their lives; they got up in the morning, and went to bed at night in the reasonable certainty of not falling over the edge of the world or being attacked by lunatics or waking up on a rock with ideas above its station. He dimly remembered leading a life like that once."
Terry Pratchett
The Light Fantastic
"She would work with a burning cigarette held out ballerina-style in one hand, a tower of ash she didn't need to look at building nicely while she dusted, or performed a slow-motion version of same, the dust in no danger, until the tower was certain to fall, and at the last moment, as though it were a smoking extension of herself, she would bring the cigarette to her small mouth and suck like the damned."
#SundaySentence
This is Happiness
Niall Williams
2019 Bloomsbury
https://tinyurl.com/3ydp2dey
“‘You did not ask,’ the tallest hyena said. ‘But you are wild now regardless.’”
#SundaySentence is from Wild Life, by Amanda Leduc
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/71c5e9fb-7ed3-433b-828e-045716a0d11a
Reviewed by me for the BC Review https://thebcreview.ca/2025/03/28/2491-leduc-mcfarland/
app.thestorygraph.comWild Life by Amanda LeducAmanda Leduc’s dazzling new novel follows two walking, talking hyenas as they interact with human...
"Fate takes only one path," she added, with such confidence that Franklin decided this was someone who would be able to fill the gaping hole in his life where certainty was meant to reside.
Kate Atkinson
The Indiscreet Charms of the Bourgeoisie
#SundaySentence #KateAtkinson
"In the West even the millionaire suffers from a vague sense of guilt, like a dog eating a leg of mutton."
--George Orwell, 'Coming up for air,' published in 1939.
“Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.”
From: Austen, Jane. “Emma.”
"It's about demonstrating intelligence, demonstrating discernment and demonstrating the value of time, because to have your own time is one of the greatest luxuries in the world. Reading— not being always online, not always being connected, not having the phone constantly next to you-has come to imply that you are just operating at a different level."
- James Denman
#SundaySentence #bookstodon #reading
“A journal — any writing — is a chance at immortality, or if not eternal life, at least a little more life, a little more after death” (Elisa Gabbert, 'Any Person is the Only Self,' pp. 102f).
#SundaySentence #journaling #writing @bookstodon #meaningoflife
"People aspired to adhere to the teachings of the Church, but, for human beings, abstinence proved unequal to desire, and more and more children kept coming."
#SundaySentence from This is Happiness by Niall Williams (2019 Bloomsbury Publishing) https://tinyurl.com/ye3bh2xy
The Guardian · This is Happiness by Niall Williams review – love and loss in rural Ireland
"Carol Watson served up her signature tuna-and-pasta bake, and Greg dutifully said, "Very tasty, Mrs. Watson," with a bonhomie that he was still in the process of learning but would soon perfect and then eventually lose again as middle-age broke the rungs of his hopes and ambitions."
Kate Atkinson
Blithe Spirit
"The dog didn't require the baggage of grammar."
Kate Atkinson
The Void (short story in Normal Rules Don't Apply)
“They know things from so deep and far that we have forgotten that we have forgotten that we have forgotten them.” -- from 'Impossible Creatures' by Katherine Rundell; illus. Virginia Allyn
“I can get food for my mind in books — in observation of life — in my own reflections, [but] food for my heart must come direct from others — & my heart always craved more than my mind” (p. 96 in Megan Marshall's book 'After Lives,' quoting a letter from Elizabeth Peabody to her sister Mary).
@bookstodon #reading #SundaySentence #friendship #conversation
"After a few days of wearing fleeces in summer and falling asleep in even the shortest car journeys, she brings you a mug of tea and knows to clear space to hear how you really are."
#SundaySentence from Poetry As The Gift Of Attention by Kate Millar (2023 @scottishpoetrylibrary) https://tinyurl.com/3p46xf2e
"But then I think no, it has nothing to do with being dead, it's not death that allows us to understand one another, but poetry."
Ursula K. Le Guin
Lavinia
#SundaySentence #quote #UrsulaKLeGuin
"Protests are literally everywhere but in the news."
All you have to do is go to
and you see events every day all over the country, everything from marches in big blue cities to people holding up a sign over an overpass. There are whole reddit forums, some of them city specific, for people organizing protests. Look at the event calendars of state capitols and city halls.
50501 Movement50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movementJoin the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501.