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“We too had branched off from the people who had come before us, a family that made the family that made us, and we were shining in the darkness and casting our light all around us.”
― David Gianadda, Everything You Say Is Goodbye

“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

“In years to come, those who’d been in the room would sometimes make reference to that meeting, understanding that my answer to Michelle’s question had been an impromptu articulation of a shared faith, the thing that had launched us all on what would be a long, rough, and improbable journey. They would remember it when they saw a little boy touch my hair in the Oval Office, or when a teacher reported that the kids in her inner-city class had started studying harder after I was elected.”
― 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