{"id":161303,"date":"2022-08-26T11:33:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=161303"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:42:18","slug":"our-favorite-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/08\/26\/our-favorite-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Favorite Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_161304\" style=\"width: 857px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/screen-shot-2022-08-24-at-4.26.03-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161304\" class=\"wp-image-161304 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/screen-shot-2022-08-24-at-4.26.03-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"847\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/screen-shot-2022-08-24-at-4.26.03-pm.png 847w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/screen-shot-2022-08-24-at-4.26.03-pm-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/screen-shot-2022-08-24-at-4.26.03-pm-768x452.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-161304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sentence diagram of the sentence <em>Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo<\/em>. Craig Butz, public domain, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Buffalo_sentence_diagram.svg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9781590171998\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stoner<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by John Williams:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so he had his love affair.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These two sentences, pages apart, are both perfect. It should be obvious why, but perhaps they are more perfect because the first precedes the second, and the second is a kind of cracking open of the first or maybe a kind of blooming, grammatically and otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Sophie Haigney, web editor<\/b><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i>And more of our favorite lines from our recent reading:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/1980\/05\/26\/the-shawl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Shawl<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d by Cynthia Ozick<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She only stood, because if she ran they would shoot, and if she tried to pick up the sticks of Magda\u2019s body they would shoot, and if she let the wolf\u2019s screech ascending now through the ladder of her skeleton break out, they would shoot; so she took Magda\u2019s shawl and filled her own mouth with it, stuffed it in and stuffed it in, until she was swallowing up the wolf\u2019s screech and tasting the cinnamon and almond depth of Magda\u2019s saliva; and Rosa drank Magda\u2019s shawl until it dried.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Camille Jacobson, business manager<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9780811229227\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Milkweed Smithereens<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Bernadette Mayer, forthcoming November 2022: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>the rain it raineth every day &amp; it will never stop, this will be good for the tomatoes, just above the bird feeder is blue sky, now thunder, no rainbows though<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014David Wallace, advisory editor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed many of the sentences in Amy Larocca\u2019s\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/25\/style\/bright-lights-big-city-niche-fame.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/25\/style\/bright-lights-big-city-niche-fame.html\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">profile of Kaitlin Phillips<\/a>, but this was my favorite:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSo much of press is like, they teach you safe press,\u201d Ms. Phillips said. <em>\u201cI\u2019m incredibly into, like, edging.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Emily Stokes, editor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9781982181772\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies<\/span><\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Maddie Mortimer:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are thick layers of filth coating her once-white feathers; the soot and dust and debris gathered over years of rare exchanges and scratchy landline calls made far too late; she stinks with it, shrinks in it, can\u2019t rid her lead-grey life of it, and I feel quite encouraged, quite invigorated by this one, as she puffs her chest out and makes a few snide comments about a time when life was pure, before regret and penance and me.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2014Clarissa Fragoso Pinheiro, intern<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From \u201cOn the Island\u201d by Gerald Stern, in\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thriftbooks.com\/w\/lucky-life_gerald-stern\/1247147\/#edition=28241976&amp;idiq=52989821\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lucky Life<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I like to think of floating again in my first home,<br \/>\nstill remembering the warm rock<br \/>\nand its slow destruction,<br \/>\nstill remembering the first conversion to blood<br \/>\nand the forcing of the sea into those cramped vessels.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Owen Park, reader<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9780063009332\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0by N. Scott Momaday: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has gone to the farther camps, but her bones are at home in the dress, in the earth.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Jane Breakell, development director<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/the-copenhagen-trilogy-childhood-youth-dependency\/9780374602390?gclid=CjwKCAjw3qGYBhBSEiwAcnTRLrkVE3zZn-zFZmT_fEHMuptSwpBWVTLsePgJ5Td_LQyw8sS9a5G23hoCnCcQAvD_BwE\"><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Youth<\/i><\/a><i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"> <\/i>by Tove Ditlevsen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Childhood is dark and it\u2019s always moaning like a little animal that\u2019s locked in a cellar and forgotten.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Campbell Campbell, intern<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9780998276380\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Untitled (1\u20135)<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Nazareth Hassan: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sounds of crusts falling<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Olivia Kan-Sperling, assistant editor<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd so he had his love affair.\u201d The <em>Paris Review<\/em> staff picks their favorite sentences from what they\u2019re reading now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68386],"tags":[8587,3462,67827,68514,373,68515,31814,10309],"class_list":["post-161303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-reviews-review","tag-bernadette-mayer","tag-cynthia-ozick","tag-featured","tag-gerald-stern","tag-john-williams","tag-missouri-williams","tag-n-scott-momaday","tag-rachel-aviv"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - 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