Category: beautiful sentences
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Beautiful Sentences: Jamie Quatro
Augustine’s God-shaped hole. But some people, she says, realize the emptiness itself is God. Jamie Quatro, Fire Sermon.
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Beautiful Sentences: Laura Kolbe
They were small people, with lawny eyebrows and demure hands. Laura Kolbe, “Crimes of Paris.”
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Beautiful Sentences: Annie Dillard
Now feelings lasted so long they left stains. Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.
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Beautiful Sentences: Taylor Koekkoek
The way she looked was something I felt in my guts. Taylor Koekkoek, “The Wedding Party.”
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Beautiful Sentences: Annie Dillard
After all, I was the intelligentsia around these parts, single handedly. The intelligentsium. Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.
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Beautiful Sentences: J. Courtney Sullivan
They were surprised that the nuns did not proselytize or try to get them to see the light. They just listened. Some only came once or twice. But the ones who returned again and again began to realize on their own that the conversations were about God, even if He was never mentioned. God through…
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Beautiful Sentences: Nnedi Okorafor
She got that plant to do the opposite of die. Nnedi Okorafor, “Tumaki.”
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Beautiful Sentences: J. Courtney Sullivan
Live long enough, and life teaches you that God is not your lucky rabbit foot. J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions.
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Beautiful Sentences: Katie Kitamura
Translation is not unlike an act of channeling, you write and you do not write the words. Katie Kitamura, A Separation.