#sundaysentence — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sundaysentence, aggregated by home.social.
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"I saw those cards in the books' back pockets as
the library's way of tracking the dispersed collection,but now I think of them as
books remembering their readers."#SundaySentence (and bonus #TodaysPoem)
Circulation Desk by Richard Harrison from My Mother Joins the Resistance (2026 Wolsak and Wynn) https://alllitup.ca/poets-resist-richard-harrison-my-mother-joins-the-resistance/ -
CW: Hilarious but NSFW language
There's no reason for me to be buff anymore but I am because - F* YOU!
-- Kumail Nanjiani
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YifEsjkStqg
Look for his comedy special.
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“Nothing about them was rich except their days swollen with time.” Annie Dillard 📖 The Maytrees #SundaySentence
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"I don't have a boss in London that I have to keep happy. My boss is the people of Wales".
Rhun ap Iorwerth
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"When the world sleeps, it falls on us, we the people, to wake it up, and now more than ever the world needs an awakening".
Francesca Albanese
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“There is a tendency among politicians these days to speak as if you were helpless, as if you had no real volition or power, but are only slaves of the god of the economy.”
“But the god of the economy is a human creation, and you do have power, and you do have choices about how you use it.”
#SundaySentence by Maggie Helwig https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opinion/article-mark-carney-honeymoon-polls-prime-minister/
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Another “comfort read” - it wasn’t profound, but the language is fun and the story engaging.
“She seemed the type of girl who could make a fortune breaking hearts if she didn’t enjoy it so much that she did it for nothing.
The coroner, conversely, looked almost nothing like that at all.”— The Tale of the Tenpenny Tontine (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries Book 3) by @PJFitzsimmons #SundaySentence
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"American officials need to stop snorting cocaine between meetings"
-- General Michel Yakovleff, former NATO deputy chief of staffhttps://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jgvcogxgfeplj7g3tfov7iro/post/3mkdnzq53nk2c
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"They may be transient and vulnerable, but they are potent, adaptable, habituated to hostility, flirtatious, deceitful, cooperative, adventurous, exploitative and colonizing beings of tremendous and world-straddling success."
#SundaySentence from Petal Power by Adam Nicolson in @newyorktimes Books https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books/review/how-flowers-made-our-world-david-george-haskell.html
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“Art is like that as well; even if at first you don’t love it, if it’s great art you can always find its value, and try to get to the essence of what’s important in it.” Marin Alsop #SundaySentence
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'Poetry may seem an improbable portal into the fundamental nature of reality—into dark matter and the singularity, evolution and entropy, Hubble’s law and pi—but it has a lovely way of sneaking ideas into our consciousness through the back door of feeling, bypassing our ordinary ways of seeing and relating to the world, our biases and preconceptions, and swinging open another gateway of receptivity.' -- from 'The Universe in Verse' by Maria Popova
#SundaySentence #BookQuote #books #reading #poetry #bookstodon
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'Poetry may seem an improbable portal into the fundamental nature of reality—into dark matter and the singularity, evolution and entropy, Hubble’s law and pi—but it has a lovely way of sneaking ideas into our consciousness through the back door of feeling, bypassing our ordinary ways of seeing and relating to the world, our biases and preconceptions, and swinging open another gateway of receptivity.' -- from 'The Universe in Verse' by Maria Popova
#SundaySentence #BookQuote #books #reading #poetry #bookstodon
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'Poetry may seem an improbable portal into the fundamental nature of reality—into dark matter and the singularity, evolution and entropy, Hubble’s law and pi—but it has a lovely way of sneaking ideas into our consciousness through the back door of feeling, bypassing our ordinary ways of seeing and relating to the world, our biases and preconceptions, and swinging open another gateway of receptivity.' -- from 'The Universe in Verse' by Maria Popova
#SundaySentence #BookQuote #books #reading #poetry #bookstodon
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'Poetry may seem an improbable portal into the fundamental nature of reality—into dark matter and the singularity, evolution and entropy, Hubble’s law and pi—but it has a lovely way of sneaking ideas into our consciousness through the back door of feeling, bypassing our ordinary ways of seeing and relating to the world, our biases and preconceptions, and swinging open another gateway of receptivity.' -- from 'The Universe in Verse' by Maria Popova
#SundaySentence #BookQuote #books #reading #poetry #bookstodon
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'Poetry may seem an improbable portal into the fundamental nature of reality—into dark matter and the singularity, evolution and entropy, Hubble’s law and pi—but it has a lovely way of sneaking ideas into our consciousness through the back door of feeling, bypassing our ordinary ways of seeing and relating to the world, our biases and preconceptions, and swinging open another gateway of receptivity.' -- from 'The Universe in Verse' by Maria Popova
#SundaySentence #BookQuote #books #reading #poetry #bookstodon
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“One might say that dualism, wherever it is found, is a way of seeing emergent novelty as if it were severed from that from which it emerged.”
Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think
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"The rain will be a stranger
and will speak to itself through you and me."#SundaySentence (and bonus #TodaysPoem) A Stranger by Russell Thornton from Two Songs - Selected Poems 2000-2025 (2026 @Harbour_Publish) https://the-wood-lot.ca/2026/02/09/under-the-spell-of-the-rain-russell-thorntons-two-songs-selected-poems-2000-2025/
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And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid
#SundaySentence #BookQuote #ReadingJournal #books #reading #bookstodon
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And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid
#SundaySentence #BookQuote #ReadingJournal #books #reading #bookstodon
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And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid
#SundaySentence #BookQuote #ReadingJournal #books #reading #bookstodon
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And so I celebrate the end of the winter festivals because it promises not just the light returning but also that the darkness will come back to be illuminated by words. -- from 'Winter' by Val McDermid
#SundaySentence #BookQuote #ReadingJournal #books #reading #bookstodon
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"She decides there is a lesson here, something about the shifting ground beneath a person and how fate might possibly swallow them whole, and it's going to be part of the story she's living as she attempts to become a person of substance."
#SundaySentence from Definitely Thriving by Kerry Clare (House of Anansi Press) https://www.thebakingbookworm.ca/2026/03/definitely-thriving-follows-life-of.html
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We are torn between the desire of knowing and the despair of having known. -- Rene Char, Notes from the French Resistance, 1943–44 #SundaySentence
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CW: #uspol
'When a clown moves into the palace, he doesn't become king. The palace becomes a circus.'
-- Claude Malhuret @[email protected]https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dcm5vlhpgz3sc3m4labia5rf/post/3mi3wec4kbs2z
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"After a while of looking so much at another's face, wouldn't that face become more familiar than your own face?"
#SundaySentence from The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (2025 @KnopfCa) https://www.btpm.org/2025-10-03/the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny-is-a-terrific-tangled-love-story
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I’ve started (re)reading Douglas Adams’ *Long Dark Teatime of the Soul* for the upteenth time.
It’s a comfort read.“…he realized without a shadow of a doubt that his fridge had now begun seriously to lurk.”
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"It was worth believing in an impossible story of God, so when death occurred and the impossible happened, you already believed that anything could be true, and if you believed in heaven, you would be so much less sad."
#SundaySentence from The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (2025 Knopf Canada) https://calirb.com/the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny-by-kiran-desai/
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"The late sun burning close and slow waves coming in -
the sea's mysterious lit wine of touch
on the sand, slipping away glittering
in scattered glasslike grains for an instant,
and returning again; if we belong
to each other, we belong to that touch."#SundaySentence (and bonus #TodaysPoem)
The Beginnings of Stars by Russell Thornton from Two Songs (2026 Harbour Publishing) https://harbourpublishing.com/collections/russell-thornton/products/9781998526574 -
A Persian inscription on a sixteenth-century platter reads: “That this platter always be full, always surrounded by friends, that they are lacking for nothing and that they enjoy everything well.” -- from 'Adventures in the Louvre' by Elaine Sciolino
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”There are things you can replace and others you cannot, the time has come to weigh those things, this space is getting hot”
Bob Weir & John Mayer on Colbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnUAqGyFMo0&list=RD4l_gUwdPrNY&index=2
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"You see and remember; this text is a memorial, a wailing wall, for the dead and the mourners have no other place to meet except by the wall of words—the wall that unites the living and the dead." ~~ from 'Oblivion' by Sergei Lebedev, trans. Antonina W. Bouis
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In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
-- Richard FeynmanRT @wisdom
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In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
-- Richard FeynmanRT @wisdom
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In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
-- Richard FeynmanRT @wisdom
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In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
-- Richard FeynmanRT @wisdom
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Another #SundaySentence
"If there's one unwavering Law of Trump, this is it: Whatever happens, it is never, ever, his fault."
-- Susan Glasser
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"The taste of your skin is an almanac."
#SundaySentence (+ #TodaysPoem & #TheSealeyChallenge!)
from Your tongue is as long as a Tuesday by Jay Besemer (knife | fork | book) https://tinyurl.com/59xfw7bw -
TW: SA [Families] do not unconditionally support victims, even when the abusers don’t dispute what happened. They do something more self-protective and sacrifice the person who has disturbed the quiet of the family #SundaySentence #alicemunro https://www.thecut.com/article/alice-munro-daughter-sexual-abuse-family-secrets.html
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TW: SA [Families] do not unconditionally support victims, even when the abusers don’t dispute what happened. They do something more self-protective and sacrifice the person who has disturbed the quiet of the family #SundaySentence #alicemunro https://www.thecut.com/article/alice-munro-daughter-sexual-abuse-family-secrets.html
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TW: SA [Families] do not unconditionally support victims, even when the abusers don’t dispute what happened. They do something more self-protective and sacrifice the person who has disturbed the quiet of the family #SundaySentence #alicemunro https://www.thecut.com/article/alice-munro-daughter-sexual-abuse-family-secrets.html
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Just discovered the #SundaySentence tag and I love it!
"For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled on top of another."
From Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell." As I recently mentioned, it's one of my favorites. 😁
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Just discovered the #SundaySentence tag and I love it!
"For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled on top of another."
From Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell." As I recently mentioned, it's one of my favorites. 😁
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Just discovered the #SundaySentence tag and I love it!
"For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled on top of another."
From Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell." As I recently mentioned, it's one of my favorites. 😁
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Just discovered the #SundaySentence tag and I love it!
"For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled on top of another."
From Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell." As I recently mentioned, it's one of my favorites. 😁
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Just discovered the #SundaySentence tag and I love it!
"For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled on top of another."
From Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell." As I recently mentioned, it's one of my favorites. 😁
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If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.
Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees
#SundaySentence
#wordsMatter #literaryquotes #quote #booksofmastodon #reading #readingcommunity #bibliophile #readersofmastodon -
A meagre stain in the corridors of history, that’s all we are. A little mark of scuff.
Sarah Winman, Still Life
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That was when I first saw how useless, how ephemeral love could be, how it gutters in the wind, a flame without body.
Thao Thai, Banyan Moon
#SundaySentence
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Ah, it’s my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me.
Fernando Pessoa#SundaySentence
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