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Cold Sassy Tree

by Olive Ann Burns

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Feb 16, 2026 11:39AM

“Surely taking life for granted is the whole point of being here, because what else are we doing? We're a bunch of lonely apes on a rock in the universe, our breath consists of eighty percent nitrogen, twenty percent oxygen, and one hundred percent anxiety.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“Nothing weighs more than someone else’s belief in you.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“A meal, a book, and a nap seemed the perfect trifecta for the afternoon. And so it was.”
― Allen Levi, Theo of Golden

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“So in theory someone might have shouted “Dinosaur!” many centuries before the 1800s. But that’s unlikely, because discovering is not merely finding something; discovering is finding and understanding that you’ve found something.”
― Edward Dolnick, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

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“The birds are like tourists. They screech and make a mess, but you’re not allowed to shoot them…”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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