It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
—Toni Morrison, “Sula”
I love this sentence mostly because I can relate to it. I can relate to pain so deep and so universal that it seems to have no top and no bottom. "Circles and circles" points at the endlessness of sorrow which is what a lot of us feel when something terrible happens. When I am hurt, it often seems like the pain will never go away but instead swallow me whole.
My sentence: "Millions of microscopic grains of sand were running through my fingers like through an elegant hourglass that quickly absorbed rays of the scarlett sun."
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