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Sentence Collecting
Sentence Collecting
"Remembering may be a celebration or it may be a dagger in the heart, but it is better, far better, than forgetting."
“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
"His hands looked like two leather bags filled with walnuts."
Reasons to collect a sentence could be because it resonated within you.
Reasons to collect a sentence could be because it resonated within you.
Maybe it was the beautiful language used, such as a metaphor, personification, or alliteration.
Or maybe it was a connection you made with the words.
Foreshadowing, characterization, or a story’s use of symbolism could be shared.
Maybe you are able to make a sudden prediction because of a sentence or you begin to suddenly wonder about something that is stated.
Finding something funny and laughing out loud is another good reason to collect a sentence.
Whatever it is, collecting sentences is a celebration of reading.
It’s when you are struck with words that speak to you in your way.
This reading exercise doesn’t change anything you do.
It merely makes you extend a hand to your peers and teachers to say, “You gotta read this!”
You’re going to read it anyway...
So share it.
“In the photos I am two years old, my little-girl curls peek from under the brim of a pink sun hat. Warm sand is under my legs.”
Collected by Lindsey
“And it would show me, once again, that one opportunity leads directly to another, just as a risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”
Collected by Sydney
“The smell of sawdust and sawn timber permeated the air. A small ramshackle jetty stood on the bank of the creek close by the work site.”
Collected by Kevin
“Running out of imaginary meals, Jonnie died today.”
Collected by Kyle
"But you don’t know it’s the last thing you’re going to say when you say it. If you did, you would probably say something different."
Collected by Kayla
“Apparently the world is not a wish-granting factory.”
Collected by Gracie
“‘Don't call me that! I am no more dear to you than the thirty-four other strangers you have here in your cage.'"
Collected by Anonymous
“She studied him--his cashmere coat and matching suit, his silk tie and slicked-back hair, and she remembered Hales warning: He’s a different kind of bad.”
Collected by Sophia
“I was born with water on the brain.”
Collected by Ryan
“Sacha snaked one arm out from beneath the blankets and reached toward Cinder, grasping her wrist where skin met metal. Her hand was marked by a bluish pigment around her yellowed fingernails."
Collected by Megan
"The shadows twisted and crowded together, layer upon layer, until darkness claimed the playground. One by one the sodium lamps fizzled on, their shimmering yellow glow casting long, eerie shadows across the park."
Collected by Mr. Murdick
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
Collected by Jackson
“Shakespeare?" This name I do recognize from health class.
Collected by Molly
“My only stability is mobility.”
Collected by Katie
“Nope, nothing wrong here.”
Collected by Ethan
“If you have walked all these days with closed ears and mind asleep, wake up now!”
Collected by Jelena
“I tune from that and then I strum an A-minor and as the chord bounces off the walls, I feel that dash of electricity shimmy up my spine in a way it hasn’t done for a long, long time.”
Collected by Penny
“A gloved hand broke the surface and thrashed in the air, struggling for something to grasp on to.”
Collected by Mr. Murdick
“Wicked instrument-tipped appendages protruded from it’s body like arms: a saw blade, a set of shears, long rods whose only purpose could only be guessed.”
Collected by Reanna
“... all I could see were the backs of my eyelids...”
Collected by Angela
“It was white, but had a yellowed shingled roof that always made her think of a slice of bread with mustard on top.”
Collected by Anna
“By the time I was two, all my memories had words, and all my words had meanings. But only in my head."
Collected by Lauren
“...to be certain that I wasn’t some sort of fake person walking around with a borrowed face and voice, thinking I was a real girl.”
Collected by Chandra
“ My inner goddess has a Do Not Disturb sign on the outside of her room.”
Collected by Sprina
“So we’ll take one day at a time, because each day is one day we didn’t have before.”
Collected by Anna
“I want to see a nerve cell. A sample of blood. The leaf of a plant, my fingernail, a piece of hair. I want to take the instrument home and slide the world under my lens, to examine it in a way I never have before.”
Collected by Kathleen
“ Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”
Collected by Ana
“It was a bad scream, a full-throated, seen a ghost hysterical scream, which silence all conversation. Shadow looked around, certain somebody was being murdered, then he realized that all the faces in the bar were turning toward him.”
Collected by Mr. Murdick
“Adults talk about how kids' brains aren't fully developed and we're like bulletproof sociopaths or something, but that's not true, at least not for me. Most of us just have a hard time putting things into words.”
Collected by Mr. Murdick
“Then with a start, you realize that the book you were holding, the red plaid cotton shirt with white buttons, the favorite black jeans and the favorite maroon socks with an almost-hole in one heel, the living room, the about-to-whistle tea kettle in the kitchen: all of these have vanished.”
Collected by Mr. Murdick
“He could still see them on that dingy porch, a backdrop to a borrowed sign. Like driftwood, they just kept floating back.”
Collected by Mr. Murdick
“We were watching the telly when we decided to rob the dentist.”
Collected by Mr. Murdick
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