A Beautiful Sentence
To Savor, write to, or think about
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Today’s Beautiful sentence:
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
‘As you’ve asked, I spent today engaged with the difficulties of writing in the immediate present tense. It’s hard to remain interested in one person’s subjectivity. There are tricks to insert other subjectivities into this tense, but it’s a challenge.’
I adore Levy’s work. She was recommended to me by my friend Joy. Levy’s writing always inspires me to write something in response. I have underlined and saved so many quotes, but it is mostly a feeling I have when I read her - like I am transported inside a snow globe of her world. Everything else is quiet, except for what is happening on the page. It is a beautiful experience.
I invite you to capture a beautiful sentence of your own. Choose a random book, or one from beside you. Maybe share it with someone. Share it with me.
This is fun, so I am leaving it here.
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A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and professional curator living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband, adventure cat, and Parkour-loving black kitten who has sharp teeth. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is the creator and host of From Zero to Submitted in 8 Weeks. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and longlisted for the Welkin Prize 2026.