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Vicki Ziegler"Sometimes the fragment of landscape thus transported into the present will detach itself in such isolation from all associations that it floats uncertainly in my mind like a flowering Delos, and I am unable to say from what place, from what time - perhaps, quite simply, from what dream - it comes."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y6ymmmue" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y6ymmmue</a>

john rakestraw“The two friends, one of them blond, resembling Richard Strauss, smiling, reserved, adroit, the other dark, properly dressed, gentle and firm, all too supple, lisps, both epicurean, constantly drink wine, coffee, beer, schnapps, smoke uninterruptedly, one of them pours for the other, their room across from mine full of French books, write a great deal in the musty writing room when the weather is nice” (Kafka’s Diaries, 29 July 1914).<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/franzkafka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#franzkafka</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sundaysentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sundaysentence</a>

Vicki Ziegler"The belief that a person has a share in an unknown life to which his or her love may win us admission is, of all the prerequisites of love, the one which it values most highly and which makes it set little store by all the rest."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2s47sx9p" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/2s47sx9p</a>

handmade ghost"Ghosts probably lived in ghost time--time that flowed in its own strange way, somewhere completely removed from our own."--from Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a>

MardraS<a href="https://mas.to/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a>

Vicki Ziegler"More books were stacked on the floor, like African anthills or a literary Stonehenge, as if the light through the wood slat blinds would eventually align with the volumes to reveal a fundamental truth or at least the correct time."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> The Reluctant Poet by Blaine Newton from Rag Pickers (2025 University of Calgary Press) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/52zt6v99" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/52zt6v99</a>

Chuckling Duck<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> plus 2"The story of our relationship to the earth is written more truthfully on the land than on the page. It lasts there. The land remembers what we said and what we did."Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/RobinWallKimmerer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobinWallKimmerer</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BraidingSweetgrass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BraidingSweetgrass</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quote</a>

Chuckling DuckIt was the kind of storm that suggests that the whole sky has swallowed a diuretic. Equal Rites Terry Pratchett <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TerryPratchett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TerryPratchett</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/DiscWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiscWorld</a>

LisaI keep my thoughts to myself because silence cannot be misquoted.Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly <a href="https://beige.party/tags/sundaysentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sundaysentence</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a>

john rakestraw“Rule by sheer violence comes into play where power is being lost. To substitute violence for power can bring victory, but the price is very high; for it is not only paid by the vanquished, it is also paid by the victor in terms of his own power.”<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/hannaharendt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hannaharendt</a> , 'On Violence"<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> cluster <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiddleEast</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IranWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IranWar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#violence</a>

Vicki Ziegler"As the planet rolled under my feet, I noticed the change in colors: At dusk, the earth’s atmosphere scatters the shorter wavelengths of blue light, which is why our eyes see colors with longer wavelengths — reds, oranges and yellows."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> from Skin Cancer Made Me Nocturnal. It Was Illuminating. by <a href="https://mas.to/@clairecameron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@clairecameron</a> (2025 <a href="https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@newyorktimes</a>) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/4sckyyzb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/4sckyyzb</a>

john rakestraw"Would I prefer to be remembered wrongly, I wondered, if it meant that some trace of my life would persist, a barnacle on a raft, into the future?"Madeleine Thien, 'The Book of Records,' p. 50.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/legacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legacy</a>

MardraS<a href="https://mas.to/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a>

Vicki Ziegler"There’s something about the process of writing about the future that when you place yourself there, it’s not wildly different from writing about the past."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> by Madeleine Thien, interviewed in The <a href="https://flipboard.com/@globeandmail" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@globeandmail</a> <a href="https://tinyurl.com/fytysbxn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/fytysbxn</a>

john rakestraw“I lament my own immersion in an economy that grinds what is beautiful and unique into dollars, converts gifts to commodities in a currency that enables us to purchase things we really don’t need while destroying what we do” (Robin Wall Kimmerer, 'The Serviceberry,' p. 72).<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/extractive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extractive</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatecrisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a>

MardraS“ The perfect unruffled peace which in this world seems to come only to those who have done nothing whatever to deserve it.” -P.G. Wodehouse, *Heavy Weather* (Blandings Castle, #5)<a href="https://mas.to/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a>

armadillosoft<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sundaySentence</a> 5/25/25"On a base level, it's much easier to arrest people than it is to go through the legal process to remove them."<a href="https://www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-mississippi-father-at-his-citizenship-hearing-threatening-deportation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-mississippi-father-at-his-citizenship-hearing-threatening-deportation/</a>RT ryan cooper <a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/ryanlcooper.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ryanlcooper.com</a>gotta say I did not anticipate ICE goons going after the whitest possible immigrants with American families, jobs, and in good standing legally. a freaking Danish-born welder in Mississippi with four blonde kids and a pregnant wife. just omnidirectional hate<a href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p5yoii26kayabauhkym3vtms/post/3lppssqnuj52t" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p5yoii26kayabauhkym3vtms/post/3lppssqnuj52t</a>

Julé Cunningham"It seemed to him a contradiction: people bought beautiful houses, spent millions of yen so that the windows would face south, the wood would be cedar, and the ceramics in the cabinet would be from the most exclusive potters, but then accumulated so much stuff that you could no longer see any of it; even the light had to make space for itself like water seeping between the furniture and clutter." -- from 'The Heartbeat Library' by Laura Imai Messina, trans. Lucy Rand<a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/BookQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookQuote</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

Vicki Ziegler"Her poetry describes the gap between mundane signification and language’s ineffable sensuousness. It articulates this gap as power, a piston, a unit of potential that poetry can harness as resistance, which is joy."<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> by poet Hamish Ballantyne praising poet Cecily Nicholson <a href="https://tinyurl.com/5xwsc5x5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/5xwsc5x5</a>

john rakestraw“The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving” (Rebecca Solnit, ‘No Straight Road Takes You There,’ p. 170).<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SundaySentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SundaySentence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hope</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climatecrisis</a>

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