One Great Moment

"...cutting the viewer to the bone."

“…cutting the viewer to the bone.”

—Film critic Matt Zoller Seitz on actor Tom Sizemore

“…the stories it told … were not someone else’s but one larger story of which they, too, were a part.”

—From the novel "Our Missing Hearts" by Celeste Ng
"... how the persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well."

“… how the persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well.”

—From the novel "Room" buy Emma Donoghue, which is written entirely in the voice and perspective of a 5-year-old boy
"Sleep will not come for her..."

“Sleep will not come for her…”

—From the novel "The Marriage Portrait" by Maggie O'Farrell
" ... a slab of muscle with Olympic speed."

” … a slab of muscle with Olympic speed.”

—Tommy Tomlinson on Herschel Walker in his football prime
"...Baldwin when you're stuck. ...Coltrane when you're not."

“…Baldwin when you’re stuck. …Coltrane when you’re not.”

— President Barack Obama's advice to speechwriter Cody Keenan
"... the Jenga tower simply will not collapse."

“… the Jenga tower simply will not collapse.”

—From the dissenting opinion to the U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding Dobbs v. Jackson
"... anything can happen in a war."

“… anything can happen in a war.”

—From the 1961 movie "The Guns of Navarone"
"... sequestered neighborhoods and old hates that die hard or leave a residue ..."

“… sequestered neighborhoods and old hates that die hard or leave a residue …”

—The character Tookie, in Louise Erdrich's novel "The Sentence"
"It smelled like margarine and white bread, marriage and cramped flats."

“It smelled like margarine and white bread, marriage and cramped flats.”

—Douglas Stuart, from his novel, "Shuggie Bain"