Hello everyone! As a craft exercise, I’d like to start a thread about our fav sentences from published work or your own work! 🙂
#favorite sentences
abstract dragon
I’m going to start off with the final line of the Great Gatsby: “And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
I also have to put this whole paragraph from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road:
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
silk ocean
“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
rugged pawn
Laughter spews from between my teeth. “ I would die for the truth that all men are created equal. But in the kingdom of death, emits the ramparts of bodies and wind all screams, there is a king. And his name is not lune. It is reaper.” — Pierce Brown, red rising