Pat Nixon

“Funny how the days you weep, you can also have the fullest, deepest laughs.”
― Michelle Huneven, Bug Hollow

“Alfani notes a pattern that unfolds “repeatedly and systematically across history”: when economic elites become ingrown, impenetrable, and “insensitive to the plight of the masses,” societies tend to become unstable.”
― Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

“And all that burgeoning physicality is held within yourself as a sort of secret, even as it is also the actual surface that you present to the world, so that you’re left absurdly exposed, unsure whether the world knows everything about you or nothing, because you have no way of knowing whether these experiences that you’re having are universal or entirely specific”
― David Szalay, Flesh

“Approximately 117 million people earned, on average, the same income that they did in 1980, while the typical income for the top one percent had nearly tripled.”
― Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich