“At the first step upon the cold surface, Buck's feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud. He sprang back with a snort. More of this white stuff was falling through the air. He shook himself, but more of it fell upon him. He sniffed it curiously, then licked some up on his tongue. It bit like fire, and the next instant was gone. This puzzled him. He tried it again, with the same result. The onlookers laughed uproariously, and he felt ashamed, he knew not why, for it was his first snow.”
― The Call of the Wild
― The Call of the Wild
“I hate when people say “touché” after you say something funny. I don’t know what it means, but I know that I hate it.”
― Based on a True Story
― Based on a True Story
“I cannot find Norm’s essence. It is a problem I’ve never encountered as a ghost, and I need to truly become him to finish the book. It has always been my great gift, the ability to find a person’s essence. But Norm evades me. It must be because I hate him with such intensity.”
― Based on a True Story
― Based on a True Story
“I drank a handle of bourbon that night, alone and in glory.”
― Based on a True Story
― Based on a True Story
“That’s where I found him, making a living underneath the Queensboro Bridge, jerking off punks for fifteen dollars a man.”
― Based on a True Story
― Based on a True Story
Jesse’s 2025 Year in Books
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