#sentence

Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life

I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#dreams

All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that humans were cruelest when segregated by sex, and the cold feeling in the pit of my stomach became led. What had I let myself in for? ↗

— C.S. Friedman

#dark #fear #short-sentences #experience

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#chicken #family #first-sentence #freaks #family

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#dots #end #i #indescribable #myself

3 years, 1 month, 1 week, and 6 days since I'd seen daylight. ↗

— Susanne Winnacker

#life

David was catnip and kryptonite to me ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

My suffering left me sad and gloomy. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

It was Wang Lung's marriage day. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#opening-lines #marriage

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#holden #parenting