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When you give up trying to change her into someone more like you, you can attune to who she really is. That’s when the real magic happens.
“The Texas Republic, whose constitution expressed an overheated enthusiasm for America’s peculiar institution, had been created in 1836 in part as a way for slave-owners to keep their human property by effectively seceding from Mexico where slavery was illegal. These are well-known facts, except possibly in Texas,”
― Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
― Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
“I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.”
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“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“Along the way, I’ve tried not to make the same mistake twice, to learn, to adapt, and to pray for the wisdom to make better choices in the future.”
― Hard Choices
― Hard Choices
“As much as I might have wanted to, I could never change my vote on Iraq. But I could try to help us learn the right lessons from that war and apply them to Afghanistan and other challenges where we had fundamental security interests. I was determined to do exactly that when facing future hard choices, with more experience, wisdom, skepticism, and humility.”
― Hard Choices
― Hard Choices
Liz’s 2025 Year in Books
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