Fifth Sentences

Fifth sentences randomly taken from the trusty books on my shelf:

Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do. Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red

When I was a child, I didn't know that the pieces of paper I used had been made by anybody. Wallace Shawn - Essays

It was surrounded by a thick growth of cane and brier, of cypress and gum in which broken sunlight lay sourceless. - William Faulkner - Sanctuary 

Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. Ursula K. LeGun - The Dispossessed 

White, perhaps. Renaldo Arenas Farewell to the Sea

It is intimate and it is universal - Gaston Bachelard - The Psychoanalysis of Fire

The surface of these pools, by day, reflected perfectly the blue sky, a reflection broken only by the thin, bright green tips of new rice. David Abram - The Spell of the Sensuous 

First Sentences

First sentences from 5 books sitting on my bottom bookshelf:

There was a wall. Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed

Dante finds himself astray in a dark wood, where he spends a night of great misery. Dante's The Divine Comedy

From the demonstrations in Seattle through Prague and Quebec, the left has organized an opposition that is steadfast and strong, and which is raising havoc with the master's plans to further enrich and empower the already rich and powerful. Michael Albert's The Trajectory of Change

I'm writing to you today out of sentimental necessity - I have an anguished, painful need to speak with you. Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet  

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. MFK Fisher's Serve it Forth