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That wasn’t the first time a buffoon has been handed an office he doesn’t deserve, and it won’t be the last.
anticipation is often worse than reality. I’ll bet today won’t be nearly as bad as you think.”
Here’s the thing about powerhouse people: you have no idea how much they take on until they can’t do it all anymore.
Nobody should be that good at so many different things. It doesn’t build character.
“You’re as stubborn as she is, aren’t you? You’ll be the death of me.”
That’s Ivy for you; she has this way of making observations that seem like throwaways, but end up being weirdly deep enough that you think about them years later.
You can be right in principle and still wrong in approach, Mom used to tell me when I’d get frustrated that other kids in student government wouldn’t follow my lead. Nobody likes to feel steamrolled.
Wes likes to say that Henry can’t talk about his feelings, so you have to pay attention to how he shows them. Mateo is the same way. “He likes you, too.”
It’s a pack of Sugar Babies, and she practically melts into the ground as she takes it.
“That I preferred extreme failure to admitting I needed help. Which is a problem, isn’t it?
