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“Jason Carter, eulogizing his grandfather, observed that Jimmy Carter “was the same person, no matter who he was with or where he was. And for me, that’s the definition of integrity.”

“Don’t you ever let them make you cry”

“But it remains true that the vice president’s role will be as little or as much as the sitting president desires. That can be a hard pill to swallow.”

“The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” —ALBERTO BRANDOLINI

“I know you think of me as your mother only, but please remember, inside I am also just a girl.”

“How cruel life is only this long. Now that I see clearly, I’d like more time.”

“I didn't know it was happiness at the time, because it felt like busyness and exhaustion and financial stress and self doubt.”

“As there is no such rhythm in the human life, I have to think that when it comes to seasons we all get one round. We are born and grow through childhood in spring. We live those glorious, lively, interesting years of our twenties, thirties, forties in summer. We settle into ourselves in autumn, that cool but not yet cold time, rich and aromatic. And in winter we age (brutally) and die.”

“Sometimes routine offers certainty, action without having to give thought, a practice that doesn’t require questioning. Sometimes it offers comfort. Sometimes when we lose those routines, we lose ourselves.”

What is going on?!

“I suppose it was in the darkness of the morning before the sun peeked over the horizon that I first came to believe that a home has a soul.”

“They say women forget, but we don’t. We tuck away the throes deep in our bones, forever carrying the memories in the recesses of our bodies.”

“Of course, sometimes we forget that dreams and nightmares are two sides of the same coin.”

Listen Achilles, I’m about over hearing about your honor, glory, etc speeches and decisions.

Definitely a love story that features war, Gods, and men being… men

Was the random curious pity sex needed?

Well, I’m at 1.75x bc it’s slow but, plot twist, Achilles can pass for a woman bc he’s so beautiful. His momma doesn’t play.

So far, it’s just meh

So far, extremely boring start
Beginning to see the love affair between the two MMCs

“Books won't solve my problems, Harriet.'
'No, but they give your problems perspective. They allow your problems to breathe.”

“Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same.”

“I am a reader. I am intelligent. I have something worthy to contribute.”

“I had decided not to look at a single screen for the next seven weeks to see what screen time was doing to my head, hands, and heart. To see what had been missing.”