Meredith

“On an average day, school buses carried twice as many people as the entire U.S. public transportation system. A lot of the talk in the White House pandemic planning room had been about grown-ups: how they worked and traveled.”
― Michael Lewis, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

“She ended every show with her signature line: “Children, set the table. Your mother needs a moment to herself.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“It was smart people trying to create the thing by consensus. You can't write a strategy by committee.”
― Michael Lewis, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

“He did not see that the continuity of an oligarchy need not be physical, nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been shortlived, whereas adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church have sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years. The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains the same.”
― George Orwell, 1984