I recently saw a tweet on twitter by Goodreads and got deeply inspired to post this new topic, because I find the answers so interesting.
What's the last thing that left you sentranced?
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads only lives once ~George R. Martin Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about recreating yourself. ~George B. Shaw
I have no specific examples but often times Charles Dickens sentences leave me this way. On many an occasion I have found myself rereading sentences in his novels, not because I didn't understand but because the sentence was so beautiful that once just wasn't going to be enough.
Shakespeare has that effect on me, when I read his work It's a constant discovery. I decided once to take a highlighter and highlight the things I thought were amazing or quotable and to my shock I ended up highlighting most of the book! Perhaps prose just speaks to me...
Maybe what most people wanted wasn't immortality and fame, but the reassurance that their existence had meant something. No matter how long... or how brief. Maybe being eternal meant becoming a story worth telling. — Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality