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“Michelle shook her head and looked out the window. We both knew what I was asking for. Another disruption. Another gamble. Another step in the direction of something I wanted and she truly didn’t. “This is it, Barack,” Michelle said. “One last time. But don’t expect me to do any campaigning. In fact, you shouldn’t even count on my vote.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Some kids in West Texas don’t feel rain on their face until they’re five.”
― Julia Heaberlin, We Are All the Same in the Dark

“It took a while to figure out that my problem wasn’t a lack of a ten-point plan. Rather, it was my general inability to boil issues down to their essence, to tell a story that helped explain an increasingly uncertain world to the American people and make them feel that I, as president, could help them navigate it.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“I’d been hoping to find an inscription or a letter concealed inside, but the Bible’s empty of wisdom.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle