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November 22, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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From Alison C. Rollins's poem "All the World Began With a Yes": "Morality flexes its musculature, trusts // that truth sets out to penetrate mysteries / only for man to rebuild them with fury."

#favoritelinefridays #alisoncrollins #libraryofsmallcatastrophes @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social #poetry
December 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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A favorite line from Jorie Graham's poem "Ambergris": "It takes / such a long time to believe // in evidence."
#favoritelinefridays #joriegraham
Post's text superimposed over hazy photograph of a coronavirus seen through a microscope.
December 6, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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In honor of the 120th anniversary of Graham Greene's birth this past Wednesday, a favorite line from a book I was very surprised to like (though I fully expected to admire it), *The Quiet American*:
#favoritelinefridays #GrahamGreene
Open hands on a dark background. Text: "Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm." Graham Greene, The Quiet American @cherylwalshbooks #favoritelinefridays
October 4, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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"I think I could stop here myself and do miracles." ~ Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road"
#favoritelinefridays #waltwhitman
"I think I could stop here myself and do miracles." ~ Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road" @cherylwalshbooks #favoritelinefridays
August 30, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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"After so many years the death of an old enemy is like the death of an old friend." ~ John Williams, *Augustus*
#favoritelinefridays #johnwilliamsauthor
"After so many years the death of an old enemy is like the death of an old friend." ~ John Williams, *Augustus* #favoritelinefridays @cherylwalshbooks
August 23, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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From a novel by one of my favorite authors: "Funny how often the Will of God puts a dollar in a pocket." Louise Erdrich, *LaRose*
#favoritelinefridays #louiseerdrich #LaRose
Closeup of engraved eye from US currency. Text: Funny how often the Will of God puts a dollar in a pocket. Louise Erdrich, LaRose, @cherylwalshbooks #favoritelinefridays
October 25, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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"Each small thing that vanishes / takes up more space." ~ Sara Lupita Olivares, "Of Inheritance"
#favoritelinefridays #saralupitaolivares
January 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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A favorite line from Jim Harrison's wonderful novel *Returning to Earth*: "I awoke delighted with life on earth despite its desperately compromised nature."

#jimharrison #favoritelinefridays
August 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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"Old age land-lock'd within its winter bay--(cold, cold, O cold!)"
~ Walt Whitman, "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine"

#favoritelinefridays #waltwhitman
January 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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A favorite line from @jenniferfawcett.bsky.social's brand new book, *Keep This for Me*: "When did all their tiny movements get so layered with meaning? It was exhausting."

#favoritelinefridays #keepthisforme #thrillerbooks @atriabooks.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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A favorite line from Barbara Kingsolver's novel *The Poisonwood Bible*: "Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization."

#favoritelinefridays #barbarakingsolver #thepoisonwoodbible #womenwriters #postcolonialliterature
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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From John T. Price's essay "Titan," in his wonderful memoir *Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships*: "So she married...and settled into a life that, like the life before, seemed to strand her just shy of happiness."
#favoritelinefridays #johntprice #mankilledbypheasant
Closeup of two wedding rings sitting at the edge of a worn wooden table. Text: "So she married...and settled into a life that, like the life before, seemed to strand her just shy of happiness. John T. Price, Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships, @cherylwalshbooks, #favoritelinefridays
October 11, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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A favorite line from Adam Galanski-De León's novel *Szarotka*: "You have made friends with the monsters under your bed."

#favoritelinefridays #szarotka #americanbuffalobooks
Moody shadow of man standing before a window.
December 13, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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A favorite line from Robin Wall Kimmerer's *Braiding Sweetgrass*: "The difference between success and bloodshed is a small degree in the angle of the knife and the pressure of the hand."
#favoritelinefridays #robinwallkimmerer
February 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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In celebration of UNEQUAL TEMPERAMENT's second birthday, here is one of my own lines for #favoritelinefridays.

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"There was something comforting about handling a machine.... The inexplicable could be explained, the right decision implicit in the conditions. Incorrect decisions were measurable. And if something went wrong, there would be a solution. Or at least a clear reason for scrapping the heap." Unequal Temperament, Cheryl Walsh
September 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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A favorite line from Hernan Diaz's novel *Trust*: "More than the threatening tone, what she found terrifying was the incoherence of his tirade, because she thought there was no greater violence than the one done to meaning."
#favoritelinefridays #hernandiaz
Text superimposed on a photo of a vortex built of books and papers.
December 20, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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A favorite line from Pat Barker's novel *Regeneration*: "The congregation, having renounced reason, looked rather the happier for it, and sat down to await the sermon."
#favoritelinefridays #patbarker #regenerationnovel
Photo of a nave-like meeting room with a chandelier.
February 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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A favorite line from Aldo Leopold's classic of nature writing, *A Sand County Almanac*: "A March morning is only as drab as he who walks in it without a glance skyward, ear cocked for geese."
#favoritelinefridays #aldoleopold #asandcountyalmanac
Eight geese flying in a misty blue sky.
March 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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A favorite line from John le Carré’s novel *The Little Drummer Girl*: “All Americans unsettled him; and most scared him, either by their knowledge or their ignorance, or both.”

#favoritelinefridays #johnlecarre #bookstagrammers
Text superimposed on a close-up photo of the American flag.
January 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Favorite lines from T. S. Eliot's poem "East Coker": "Do not let me hear / Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, / Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, / Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God."

#tseliot #eastcoker #favoritelinefridays #poetry
Black and white photo of two pairs of clasped hands, wrinkled and gnarled, next to each other from across a table, not touching.
September 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Favorite lines from the great Naomi Shihab Nye's "Palestine Vine":
I wasn't evil, but I wasn't careful.
This is what happens in the world.
Photo by Wesley Davi via Pexels
#favoritelinefridays #naomishihabnyequotes
Photo of a young woman resting with eyes closed against a shattered globe.
November 1, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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"Sorry, that paltry word, stretches so thin over so many broken things." Sally Thomas, Works of Mercy.
#favoritelinefridays #sallythomas
"Sorry, that paltry word, stretches so thin over so many broken things." Sally Thomas, Works of Mercy. @cherylwalshbooks #favoritelinefridays
August 16, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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Friday inspiration?
Look to the courageous artists, writers, activists, scientists, and freedom fighters who capture moments of the human struggle. It's easy to become discouraged when everything is a struggle, but that is when we need to dig deep & speak the truth. ✨
#FavoriteLineFridays #courage
November 15, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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A favorite line from Robert Hass's poem "Levitation": "There are clocks in seeds."
#favoritelinefridays #roberthass
Close-up photo of sunflower seeds germinating.
February 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM