Danielle Dulchinos

“These are the lies we tell ourselves to solve the cognitive dissonance—the broken connection between the world we see and the values we preach.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.”
― Gretchen Rubin, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life

“...but from an early age she would have known literarily what she at twenty-one discovered empirically: there were days you felt like waging war, and days when you just needed to go home.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

“He embraced compromise as a necessary element of public life, engaged his political foes in the passage of important legislation, and was willing to break with the base of his own party in order to do what he thought was right, whatever the price. Quaint, yes: But it happened, in America, only a quarter of a century ago.”
― Jon Meacham, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush