Sam Purdie

“Trump’s lies about the election had led to the violent assault on the Capitol. People had died. His ongoing attacks against the integrity of our elections were undermining our democracy, and could lead to still more violence. We had to find a way to defeat these fake stolen-election claims that had captured so much of the Republican Party. People had to hear the truth.”
― Liz Cheney, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

“Since January 6, we had met privately several times in a town house near Capitol Hill, along with a small group of experts on authoritarianism and the rise of antidemocratic movements. We agreed that the threat posed by Donald Trump might well imperil the existence of American democracy.”
― Liz Cheney, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

“Lonny Cane looked a lot like Daddy, if Daddy were for sale in a thrift shop.”
― Tabitha King, Candles Burning

“He wanted to be Byron, but guess what?" Pettit said. "Nobody reads Byron anymore. . . But everybody reads Poe. He Outlives Byron. He outpaces Byron. He outdoes Byron. He didn't get to be Byron, but he got to be Edgar Allan Poe. He's going to be the best-read American writer in the world, and you wish he could have known that.”
― Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe