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“The truth I could see with my own eyes was the only truth I trusted these days. “Truth” had somehow become subjective.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Rides Again

“Even the most expensive luxury-hotel mattress in the world was no match for one in your home. The one with your bedside table. The one with your reading light. The one with your wife.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Rides Again

“A hundred years ago, the Irish had been the immigrant boogeymen. The popular image of the leprechaun began life as a xenophobic political cartoon. Once, nobody thought a Catholic could be president. Then Kennedy came along. From time to time, we liked to pat ourselves on the back and think we were done with hate. Recent history had shown us it didn’t take much to awaken it, though.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Rides Again

“There were thick steel bars on the lower-level windows of every residence. It seemed like a nightmare way to live your life, always peering out from behind bars like you were a prisoner in your own home. The houses couldn’t have been cheap, but each one was a prison. A multimillion-dollar prison.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Rides Again