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The way I see it, Republicans had three options for how to deal with the new political reality they faced in January 2009. Option 1: Recognize that the new president was hugely popular and had a mandate from the American people to deal with
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“It had been there, hadn't it? Something blooming between the two of us. A closeness. A possibility. And what had I done? Pulled away.”
― These Silent Woods
― These Silent Woods
“The thing about grace is that you don’t deserve it. You can’t earn it. You can only accept it. Or not.”
― These Silent Woods
― These Silent Woods
“Because if your own child, the person for whom you’ve sacrificed everything, for whom you’ve broken laws as well as your own personal sense of boundaries, has lost confidence in you, and in turn, in themselves and the world at large, then what’s the point of any of it?”
― These Silent Woods
― These Silent Woods
“Spin into regretting and wishing and remembering, and it's a vortex, that type of thinking. It'll suck you right down and you have to kick and claw your way back. Better to stay in the present.”
― These Silent Woods
― These Silent Woods
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