Haley

“Everyone needs to feel that way sometimes. To feel, in a seemingly endless stream of "difficult," that some things--sometimes--can be easy. And that we get better. Everyone needs somebody to jump into the hole they're in and show them the way out.”
― Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack

“You never really know a person until after they're dead. That's when it all comes out. All the stuff they locked up in boxes. All the secrets, all the lies. That's when you know the truth.”
― Lisa Jewell, Before I Met You

“Ya know, Joey,” Uncle Ed would say, “there’s no accountin’ for horses’ asses.” And Uncle Ed’s line became a key bit of shorthand between us, a private joke. When one foreign head of state came to the White House for a visit,…almost the first thing out of his mouth was this: “They say I am strong, Barack, and you are weak…We just looked at one another, and the president, cool as always, turned to me, raised an eyebrow and said, “Uncle Ed.”
― Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

“It was not that I sounded Southern--Southerners are some of the most pretentious people on earth--but that I sounded country, or since I was at Harvard, "rural.”
― Rick Bragg, All Over But the Shoutin'