The Best Sentences We've Read This Month
Dig into these amazing lines from this fall's newest books that make you stop and think—or just gasp at the power of the language.
By Leigh Newman
"Italy was the only place I'd visited where people described kitchen implements as having souls of their own."
— Jen Lin-Liu, author of
On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome with Love and Pasta
"We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life."
— Curtis Sittenfeld, author of
Sisterland
"Edwardsville was the first place where I understood what manners were for...They allowed
people who may not even have liked each other much to get along effortlessly in the closest quarters. They were a way for tradition, faith, courtesy, and habit to exchange places in a ceaseless dance."
— Lee Sandlin, author of
The Distancers: An American Memoir.
"Her contact lenses were the color of a night sky split by lightning."
— Rebecca Lee, author of
Bobcat and Other Stories
"Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity."
— Robert Boswell,
Tumbledown
"I once thought if I traveled in France I would have a different brain, the brain of a girl who travels in France. I saw myself, skipping through meadows in a yellow-and-blue print dress."
— Aimee Bender, author of
The Color Master
"Everybody had the same ideas, really. The artists just didn't feel ashamed of their ideas."
— Valerie Trueblood, author of
Search Party: Stories of Rescue
"This is one of the reasons we watch movies, attend recovery groups, read memoirs, and sit around campfires telling stories long after the fire has dwindled down to a few glowing embers. It’s written in the Psalms that 'deep calls to deep,' which is what happens when you get a glimpse of what someone else has gone through or is currently in the throes of and you find yourself inextricably, mysteriously linked with that person because you have been reminded again of our common humanity."
— Rob Bell, author
What We Talk About When We Talk About God
Published 09/28/2013
