"The surprise of old age is how comfortable a person can be with an empty day, how companionable it can be."~ Isla Morley southernreviewofbooks.com/2021/09/03/the… #SundaySentence

"Mr. Havens has made a story of her world, one picture like the first page of a novel, another like the-next-to page where the reader longs to know how it all ends." ~ Isla Morley simonandschuster.com/books/The-Last… #SundaySentence

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"Heavy eyelids in the afternoon had their own logic, their own peculiar weight. ~Ian McEwan "Sweet Tooth" theguardian.com/books/2012/aug… #SundaySentence

. . . "Life is very weird, no matter how it ends, very filled with dreams. . . . ~Louise Gluck (from Poem "Vita Nova") newyorker.com/books/page-tur… #SundaySentence

"It is possible to speak without words, to know a creature's wants and desires though there is only silence." ~ Alice Hoffman "The Dovekeepers" theguardian.com/books/2011/nov… #SundaySentence

"This is the way of life, Lucy says. The many things we do not know until it is too late." ~ Elizabeth Strout npr.org/2021/10/19/104… #SundaySentence

"To take seriously the proposition that disappearance is the normal order of things." ~ Troy Jollimore "Silence and Residue of Waters" #poem publishersweekly.com/9780691218823?… #SundaySentence

"There's such happiness in a successful escape." ~ Emily St. John Mandel, "The Glass Hotel" npr.org/2020/03/30/818… #SundaySentece

"I felt fragile green shoots of hope push to the sunlight." "Vanessa and Her Sister" theguardian.com/books/2015/feb… #SundaySentence

"An even tide rolls in with the certainty of fracture." ~ Priya Parmar "Venessa and Her Sister" washingtonpost.com/entertainment/… #SundaySentence

"Other bats are taking off above the trees to forage for night, beating their leathery wings into a sudden flurry." by Dominic Smith "The Last Painting of Sara De Vos" nytimes.com/2016/04/10/boo… # SundaySentence

“There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.” — Dominic Smith quotefancy.com/dominic-smith-… #SundaySentence The Last Painting of Sara De Vos

"His silence was unsettling, a kind absence, as if he wasn't wholly there." ~ Anika Scott ~"The German Heiress" #SundaySentence washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/book…

"A hawk appeared out of the woods below and rose effortlessly and came about and drifted quarterwise down the wind and turned and rose again and hovered."~ Cormac McCarthy #SundaySentence nytimes.com/2022/10/19/boo…

“We would hardly wish to know ourselves again as once we were and yet we mourn the days.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger #SundaySentence theguardian.com/books/2022/oct…

"In luminous stages, the landscape began to revel itself." by Marie Benedict (The Other Einstein) bookreporter.com/advance-reader… #SundaySentence

"How do you weigh the guilt of leaving and living?" ~ "Ma and Me" by Putsata Reang washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/book… #SundaySentence

"Each felt fortunate to be in the company of the other." "The World That We Knew" - Alice Hoffman #SundaySentence simonandschuster.com/books/The-Worl…

"I Left the room for five minutes and he was gone." ~ Margaret Artwood "Old Babes in the Wood" #sundaysentence