“The Nausea is not inside me: I feel it out there in the wall, in the suspenders, everywhere around me. It makes itself one with the café, I am the one who is within it.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“I pretend I’ve got lots of confidence and I’m a big jock and like that but deep inside I’m a frightened, insecure, can’t-make-it failure.”
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“The mountain pine beetle is a tiny creature that chews through a lodgepole’s bark, gouges out a hollow in the wood and lays its eggs. The larvae hatch hungry and feed on the cambium layer, a tree’s most vital part, the annual layer of cells that makes up a growth ring. To prevent drowning in the tree’s sap, the beetle larvae can eject a choking fungus that not only halts the life-giving flow of sap, but stains the wood a grey-blue color.”
― Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
― Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
“Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people.”
― Intimate Journals
― Intimate Journals
“I'm not into this whole "move with the times" thing. I reckon we should just decide on a year and stick with it.”
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Frederick’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Frederick’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Cookbooks and Paranormal
Polls voted on by Frederick
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