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1 " Shifting my weight and readjusting my stance, I'm eventually able to do like he wants, floating up and down in the palms of his hands." That's it-" he said.I ask if this is how he and Frieda do it. Laughing, he nods his head no." Why NOT?" " Because-- unlike YOU- she's not very FOND of getting corn-holed. "
2 " And although Frieda B. didn't feel it inside, the belief of her friend gave her courage to try. "
― Renata Bowers , Frieda B. and the Finkledee Ink (Frieda B., #4)
3 " So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends. "
― Renata Bowers , Frieda B. Meets the Man in the Moon (Frieda B., #2)
4 " She never opened her mail in the middle of the day. Sometimes she forgot about it for a week or more until people rang to complain. Nor did she check her answering machine messages. In fact, it had only been in the last year that she had finally bought an answering machine, and she steadfastly refused to have a mobile, to the incredulity of all those around her, who didn’t believe that people could actually function without one. But Frieda wanted to be able to escape from incessant communications and demands. She didn’t want to be at anyone’s beck and call, and she liked cutting herself off from the urgent inanities of the world. When she was on her own, she liked to be truly alone. Out of contact and adrift. "
― Nicci French , Blue Monday (Frieda Klein, #1)
5 " Did Ida never look for him?" Dieter asks." She didn't believe in spirits." " And what became of Henry?" " Oh. From time to time you can still hear him calling. My father heard his voice himself." " Every Saturday night when he came home drunk," Frieda says. "
