Tom Ling

“Even the shift to presidents nationwide had its downsides. “The problem is,” Canham said, “they confused presidential control for presidential management. What would a bureaucrat know about that?”
― John U. Bacon, Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football

“Bataan Peninsula”
― John Grisham, The Reckoning

“Long ago travel was full of risk and hard work. The English noun “travel” was born from the word travail, which came (by way of France) from the Latin tripalium, meaning a three-staked instrument of torture. To travel was to struggle against steep odds and have no guarantees of success. It required a lot of planning and expense, and great physical endurance.”
― Kim Heacox, Only Kayak: A Journey into the Heart of Alaska

“Sometimes”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger