Josh Frederick

“I don’t know why, but we Americans feel little obligation to preserve what once was because we choose to see it as less than what is or what could be. Like children and adolescents, we have not yet learned that the present isn’t the only thing.”
― Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food

“I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“The Vanderbilt story somehow manages to be both unique and also, deeply, universally American.”
― Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty