Brief sentences for irrelevant people

I don't have any other way to describe this post. These are sentences I'm sad I didn't write myself. I find them so beautiful. I'm in love with these sentences. All of them are from books I read at least two years ago, if not more. But they are with me. I've memorized them. I still don't know why I love them so much. Maybe the fact that they are very brief and economical sentences about irrelevant and quiet people.


He had to constantly reintroduce himself. And then he died.

There was no reality in Millicent. Millicent was no more than a simile, a random phenomenon of the mind. And she was nothing. Nothing

But Cord is still Cord. This afternoon I looked into his one eye, and he looked back at me.

He was a man of reaction rather than of action, who was managed in business, seduced in love, and steadfastly docile in all his pleasures.

Never has a more insignificant woman stepped ashore in a more insignificant village.

I believe in people who are nervous and whose hands shake a little.

The events of his life refused to accumulate into experience