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Wow, I have to grudgingly admit that that sentence from Dickens struck me as singularly masterful. I might just check and see whether that novel could pull me onto the Dickens fence and maybe off the other side...
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That line happened to be the last line of the first chapter! I'm halfway through the novel and I know Dickens has given me characters I will find hard to forget.
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What if one sentence takes up the whole page?
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"The necessary arrangements were made, and Lewinski and his wife were taken by Major Gidson and two other men to Paris, travelling on British diplomatic lassez-passez through Gdynia and Stockholm to avoid Germany." - Anthony Cave Brown Bodyguard of Lies Volume I
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"'Lie down, lie down,' said Krug, 'it is getting very late. I must go now. Come, lie down. Quick.'" Bend Sinister, Vladimir Nabokov (I know this is more than one sentence, but it made more sense to write the entire line down)
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Maybe not a book, but a magazine...
"Den Fuss in dieser Einteilung weiterarb[eiten], 21 (22,5) cm Fusslänge erreicht sind."
(Sabrina, Socken)
"Carry on working the foot, until you have reached 21 (22.5) cm in length."
From the German knitting magazine Sabrina, the socks booklet with a comprehensive explanation how to do so. I had tried with two books, but could make head nor tale from it... And then came Sabrina...
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"Feet pushing hard into the sand,intent on keeping my progresssteady and sure, choosing walking over flying since, in my experience anyway, flying in the fog isn't near as much fun as it might seem at first."
("Shimmer" the second book in the Riley Bloom Trology)
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'The Gaint Wistaria' is alive with suggestive implications about unjust patriarchal dogmatism, rebellious and fatally suppressed female sexuality, and the return into the present of what has been culturally repressed in the past.
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'Then he said I hadn't any guts.' - The Stranger by Camus
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Christianity was, from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
-- The Basic Writings of Nietzsche
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I could hardly bear for them to look upon herat all; worse still, I thought I couldn't endure to have them look upon me, as I watched her.
Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
Lots of looking...
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"The joylessness of the color scheme was matched only by the joylessness of their faces." ~ Fear of Flying, Erica Jong
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"He'll show you the way, sir, and I'se warrant ye'll be weel put up; for they never turn awa naebody frae the door; and ye'll be come in the canny moment, I'm thinking, for the Laird's servant- that's not to say his body servant, but the helper like-rade express by this e'en to fetch the houdie and he just staid the drinking o'twa pints o' tippenny, to tell us how my leddy was ta'en wi' her pains."
Walter Scott Guy Mannering
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"There were no more internal doors, but one led out to what looked like a lean-to greenhouse, filled with herbs and green."
- "The Amulet of Samarkand", Jonathan Stroud
