#sentences

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful. ↗

— Rae Hachton

#death-and-dying #first-lines #gothic-fantasy #gothic-romance #love

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

David was catnip and kryptonite to me ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

If you're going to read this, don't bother. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#opening-lines #first-sentence

The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason. ↗

— Ted Danson

#comfortable #i #little #me #more

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm. ↗

— Joan Didion

#book #constantly #day #every #every day

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI. ↗

— Bob Graham

#already #been #cia #classified #fbi

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#contain #drawing #lines #machine #paragraph

Sentences are not as such either true or false. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#false #sentences #such #true

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#country #country boy #couple #define #elvis