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Sentence of the Day: A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

6 degrees C. Not a lick of wind. Perfect night for a campfire.

Sentence of the Day: A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Everything Canada holds dear, values we stand for, are slowly being eroded by Carney's actions without them we stand for nothing. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Pierre Poilievre has been put on the Human Rights Watch List, been condemned by the United Nations for his treatment of Indigenous people, his policies have been found to be genocidal by an international tribunal, and Democracy Watch is raising red flags 🚩 Oh wait no, that was Mark Carney #cdnpoli

Sentence of the Day: A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Prime Minister Carney is granting the wishes of foreign corporations at the expense of Canadian workers, Indigenous nations, democratic accountability, and our environment. Bill C-39 is so fundamentally flawed that it cannot be fixed through amendments.

Sentence of the Day: A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

I cannot stress enough how we cannot let the national media drag the referendum story out past tomorrow. C-22 is in the Senate, C-39 is being whipped through committee, & healthcare is being privatized. Don’t indulge or engage with any elongated stories it is an 🇺🇸 -designed distraction. #cdnpoli

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Sentence of the Day: A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Thank you, David! @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social

Sentence of the Day: A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Sustain yourself without that when the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained—not shown—yet always ready. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: "As to you," said she, "you would shout and shed tears for anything, if it made a show and a noise.” A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: These the people tore to pieces and scattered far and wide with great enjoyment, while the tradesmen hurriedly shut up their shops; for a crowd in those times stopped at nothing, and was a monster much dreaded. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

I wonder if far into the future the period we're living in now will not be described as the pyroscene or the Anthropocene, but the griftoscene.

Sentence of the Day: The prosperous patronage with which he said it, made him look twice as big as he was, and four times as offensive. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Every fine straight line in the clear, whiteness of his face was cruelly, craftily, and closely compressed, while he stood looking quietly at his nephew, with his snuffbox in his hand. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

I am not afraid. I am angry.

Oh yes, and that’s not all! cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2026/06...

Sentence of the Day: Any strongly marked expression of face on the part of a chief actor in a scene of great interest to whom many eyes are directed will be unconsciously imitated by the spectators. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Mr. Cruncher himself always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: "A—a—a—business, business!" he urged, with a moisture that was not of business shining on his cheek. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: But, the time was not come yet; and every wind that blew over France shook the rags of the scarecrows in vain, for the birds, fine of song and feather, took no warning. A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: (**I’m beginning with this first sentence because it is so oft quoted but rarely in its entirety, and it seems to me that this as a whole reads more accurately, “rar like the present period.”) A Tale of Two Cities; Charles Dickens. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: I've a notion, William said, that a person only escapes in circles no matter how far the rope spins. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: It was not until the girl had come battering at his peace that he'd wondered at all about the pain of a growing root. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... ‘Calling any of these “guardrails” is doublespeak in the strict sense: a word chosen because it means the opposite of what the clause does.’

Sentence of the Day: What is time, she thought, but two hands shaking us from sleep. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: But along the shore like a night-watch drifted the brown figure he sought to escape. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The thing about stairs is that they separate you from things. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The remembrance of event and the slash of rain merged. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The earth fell away in hills and clefts as if it had been dropped carelessly wrinkled on the bare floor of the world. The Double Hook; Sheila Watson. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: It was, they agreed “a terrible waste of human life brought on by greedy people and tolerated for too long by silent majorities." Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

What Natalie Harp is committing is elder abuse.

Sentence of the Day: Looking down from the slopes of the ridge, he was reminded of a tumultuous sea suddenly frozen and turned to earth. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

If there is a singular image that defines Mark Carney’s term, let it be this one: #cdnpoli

Sentence of the Day: Now these hewers of wood and drawers of water were assigned to do what the other battalions had been unable to do: attack and seize the stubborn defences in front of Hill 145. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The man was so relieved to be captured that Moir thought he was going to kiss him. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: The blind man propped him up; Sivertz gave him eyes. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: When they stumbled from their dugouts, stunned by the fury of the bombardment, they weren't prepared to find thousands of Canadians rolling over them. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: One second elapsed, and then the world exploded as the greatest artillery barrage in the history of warfare burst upon the unsuspecting Germans and the Battle of Vimy Ridge began. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: But he would never forget that cold morning when he, William Richard Bird, aged twenty-five, late of Amherst, Nova Scotia, stared not only into the faces of the men he was about to kill but also into the deepest recesses of his own soul. Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky

Sentence of the Day: Vimy; Pierre Berton. #Booksky