#sentence

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad. ↗

— Paul Reubens

#bad #children #going #happens #i

Twelve years after Robin's death, no one knew any more about how he had ended up hanged from a tree in his own yard than they had on the day it happened. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#death

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. ↗

— James Schuyler

#however #much #poem #prose #reduced

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#i #just #know #little #mean

Then starting home, he walked toward the trees, and under them, leaving behind him the big sky, the whisper of wind voices in the wind-bent wheat. ↗

— Truman Capote

#home

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#bill #came #captain #communicate #goods

It’s funny how one summer can change everything. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#opening-lines #change

...there are just some people you cannot find the good in. But who am I to decide if someone should be killed for murdering a child...instead of for murdering a drug addict during a deal that went bad...or even if we should be killing the inmate himself? I'm not smart enough to be able to say which life is worth more than the other. I don't know if anyone is. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. ↗

— T.E. Lawrence

#fate #life-sentence #death