#sentence

Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress. ↗

— Martha Ackmann

#dreams

Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film. ↗

— William Gibson

#first-sentences #gibson #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

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#food #food

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full. ↗

— David Wong Louie

#food #food

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

My suffering left me sad and gloomy. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

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

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck. ↗

— M.T. Anderson

#fun