D. A. Hosek

Author: D. A. Hosek

  • Beautiful Sentences: Pete Dexter

    All the things she read in Raymond Chandler’s books about being hit, he’d never mentioned how heavy it felt. Pete Dexter, Paris Trout. 

  • Beautiful Sentences: Ford Madox Ford

    His face hitherto had, in the wonderful English fashion, expressed nothing whatever. Nothing. There was in it neither joy nor despair; neither hope nor fear; neither boredom nor satisfaction. He seemed to perceive no soul in that crowded room; he might have been walking in a jungle. I never came across such a perfect expression…

  • Beautiful Sentences: Ron Hansen

    I see no possible reasons for it. Is it so Mariette Baptiste will be praised and esteemed by the pious? Or is it so she shall be humiliated and jeered at by skeptics? Is it to honor religion or to humble science? And what are these horrible wounds, really? A trick of anatomy, a bleeding…

  • Beautiful Sentences: Muriel Spark

    That spring Jenny’s mother was expecting a baby, there was no rain worth remembering, the grass, the sun and the birds lost their self-centred winter mood and began to think of others. Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

  • Beautiful Sentences: Ron Hansen

    Cold and calm under mackerel skies that pink in the sunset. Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy.

  • Beautiful Sentences: Penelope Fitzgerald

    Language refers only to itself, it is not the key to anything higher. Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower.

  • Beautiful Sentences: Ron Hansen

    When Jesus washed Saint Peter’s feet it was surely a lesson in humility for his apostle, not for himself. We do not like to be done for. Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy.

  • Beautiful Sentences: John Scalzi

    If you could go back, why would you make the same choices? You already lived that life. John Scalzi, Old Man’s War.

  • Beautiful Sentences: Ron Hansen

    Wild sleep has tossed aside the gray wool blanket and sheet and twisted her nightgown on her body so that it seems shameless and slatternly. A great gush of blond hair veils her pillow. Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy.