Katherine Satchwill

YYour Kindle Notes For: The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir Samantha Power Last accessed on Friday October 4, 2019 2 Highlight(s) | 0 Note(s) Yellow highlight | Location: 624 In 1983, when more than three hundred African-American families signed up to send their children to Lakeside, Yellow highlight | Location: 890 truth: governments can either do harm or do good. “What we do,” he would say, “depends on one thing: the people.” Institutions, big and small, were made up of people. People had values, and people made choices. I would learn later that Mort was famous in the diplomatic corps for eschewing hierarchy and tracking down the best-informed officials in his embassies, irrespective of their rank. He also took care of “his people”—making phone calls on behalf of junior officials whose work he admired. But none of this was apparent to me in the first couple of months I served as his intern. When I offered edits to drafts of his speeches and op-eds, he would say, “Very helpful, Susan,” and then incorporate almost none of what I had proposed. our Kindle Notes For: The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir Samantha Power Last accessed on Friday October 4, 2019 2 Highlight(s) | 0 Note(s) Yellow highlight | Location: 624 In 1983, when more than three hundred African-American families signed up to send their children to Lakeside, Yellow highlight | Location: 890 truth: governments can either do harm or do good. “What we do,” he would say, “depends on one thing: the people.” Institutions, big and small, were made up of people. People had values, and people made choices. I would learn later that Mort was famous in the diplomatic corps for eschewing hierarchy and tracking down the best-informed officials in his embassies, irrespective of their rank. He also took care of “his people”—making phone calls on behalf of junior officials whose work he admired. But none of this was apparent to me in the first couple of months I served as his intern. When I offered edits to drafts of his speeches and op-eds, he would say, “Very helpful, Susan,” and then incorporate almost none of what I had proposed. Your Kindle Notes For: Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Book 1) Kevin Kwan Last accessed on Tuesday July 30, 2019 7 Highlight(s) | 0 Note(s) Yellow highlight | Page: 57 Eleanor had a long-held theory about men. She truly believed that for most men, all that talk of “being in love” or “finding the right one” was absolute nonsense. Marriage was purely a matter of timing, and whenever a man was finally done sowing his wild oats and ready to settle down, whichever girl happened to be there at the time would be the right one. Yellow highlight | Page: 165 Now she could, as a psychologist might say, “learn to accept and learn to adapt.” She could concentrate on the bigger picture. Sooner or later the fling would be over and life would go on, as it did for the millions of wives who quietly endured their husbands’ infidelities since time immemorial. Yellow highlight | Page: 295 “I’ve always wanted to come to Ayers Rock. Or Uluru, or whatever they call it now,” Colin said. “It’s so quiet,” Mehmet said softly. “This is a very spiritual place, isn’t it? I can really feel its energy, even from this distance.” “It’s considered to be the most sacred site for the Aboriginal tribes,” Nick answered. “My father brought me here years ago. Back in those days, we were still allowed to climb the rock. Yellow highlight | Page: 308 Wye Mun, as usual, had steered him toward the stories about money, and he had missed the chance to tell them the real story, about a man whose greatness had nothing to do with wealth or power. Yellow highlight | Page: 356 “NEVER, EVER wear green chiffon unless you want to look like bok choy that got gang-raped.” Yellow highlight | Page: 501 Trump, the fattest of the three Pekingese, waddled into the foyer. Rachel picked up the dog and placed him on her lap. “I guess that’s why I feel like I need to meet my father. I remember watching some talk show one night where adopted children finally got reunited with their birth parents. Every single one of these kids—all of them were adults at this point—talked about how they felt after meeting their birth parents. Even if they didn’t get along, even if their parents were nothing like what they expected, all of them somehow felt more whole after Yellow highlight | Page: 501 the experience.”