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“The thing about getting old, Bar,” Toot had told me, “is that you’re the same person inside.” I remember her eyes studying me through her thick bifocals, as if to make sure I was paying attention. “You’re trapped in this doggone contraption that starts falling apart. But it’s still you. You understand?”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land: The powerful political memoir from the former US President

“I’m not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“You want to grow up to be a lady, don’t you?” I said not particularly.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“They began by controlling books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures, there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451