Liv

“Things are not going well here….Vietnam is getting worse by the day. I have the choice to go in with great casualty lists or to get out with great disgrace. It’s like being in an airplane and I have to choose between crashing the plane or jumping out. I do not have a parachute.”
― Julia Sweig, Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

“It’s unbearable to have your identity summed up by one thing and one thing only and for other people to have control over what that is.”
― Keiichirō Hirano, A Man

“That God that my mom thinks she serves—he’s so much smaller than who I think the real one is. The real one—to me, he’s everywhere, in everything. And sure, maybe he speaks through the Bible. But also maybe he speaks through Narnia, and Harry Potter despite J. K. Rowling lately, and the trees, and science, and the stars, and black holes and the ocean and the way the sky looks sometimes, and you can feel it in your chest.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“And sometimes I think the greatest courage in the world is to get up in the morning and go about a day’s work. That is one of the things I like about him. He keeps on and on and on. —Lady Bird Johnson, White House diary, August 27, 1968”
― Julia Sweig, Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight