David Abrams

#SundaySentence “The next part of the left’s project is more of the arduous, ceaseless work of rebuilding, brick by brick, what was torn down with the Voting Rights Act’s rollback.” --@rtraister

"[F]or a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress." --N.K. Jemisin, THE STONE SKY #SundaySentence

"What interests me is how these stories are made—what is put in at different times in your life, what is left out at different times, and how you use the stories to see yourself, or sometimes just to make life bearable for yourself.” Alice Munro #sundaysentence @AliceMunroFest

“Beware what you speak,” said the Merlin very softly, “for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.” #SundaySentence ― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

For the evening crowd...My book was released today and I'm hugely proud of it. You can order it from Matter Press, right here: http://matterpress.com/press/  Thanks so much for all your tremendous support, Twitter friends. https://twitter.com/kathyfish/status/1071409823655190528 …

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” - Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar #SundaySentence

The best way to express gratitude is to recognize the sorrows of other people. #SundaySentence from Jasmine Days by Benyamin

“You keep your dumb ideas of purity and I’ll revel in the music of my mixed blood, my mutt blood, my earthly blood, my multitudinous blood, my brown and Rican and black and European and white and African blood, my eternal, magic, ancient blood.” #sundaysentence @Gabino_Iglesias

#sundaysentence #virginiawoolf https://twitter.com/maynardlara/status/1071746071594983425 …

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.” ~Flannery O’Connor; Mystery and Manners. (She meant all fiction, of course, as a stellar #shortstory writer herself.) #SundaySentence

"Henry always said that when you interrupt someone you might have cut off the only thing you really needed to hear in the whole conversation." #SundaySentence from the superb mystery Nighttown by @TimHallinan

“The girl gave her brother a look you could iron clothes with.” A #SundaySentence from Today Will Be a Quiet Day by Amy Hempel.

"She had sought too much in trying to understand how human frailty connected with love or with the beauty that the gifted brought." #WilliamTrevor #SundaySentence (a day late, whoops)

EVENING Here dies another day During which I have had eyes, ears, hands And the great world around me; And with tomorrow begins another. Why am I allowed two? -- G. K. Chesterton #SundaySentence

"...female lawmakers packed into the restroom off the House floor to get a glimpse of the new baby changing tables that were placed in the members-only bathrooms.” Clio Chang in Jezebel #SundaySentence #womenincongress #TheFutureisFemale