Louis Muñoz

“According to the Library of Congress catalog, 9,100 books have been published on the subject of Abraham Lincoln. Or if you like: on at least 9,100 occasions, some poor fool has tried to get the measure of him. Which raises the question of whether, at this advanced date, any other book or any other measuring is required. And if I venture to say “yes”—even an emphatic “yes”—it’s not so much because of Lincoln’s undeniable historical importance. It’s because of Lincoln himself and his refusal to be pinned down.”
― Louis Bayard, Courting Mr. Lincoln

“Their lives hanging in the balance, dependent on what was about to happen to them inside this palace at the end of the sea.”
― Simon Tolkien, The Palace at the End of the Sea

“Small wonder, then, that Mary imbibed politics from earliest infancy. If she had come up in a more modern era, she might well have staked her own claim to office, but in those pre-suffrage days, her only outlet was to find a promising candidate to marry. And herein another mystery: why did she settle on Abraham Lincoln?”
― Louis Bayard, Courting Mr. Lincoln

“They were perfectly happy with each other, but their happiness was built on a fundamental lack of connection between them. Michael knew nothing of his wife’s alternately vengeful and merciful God, who was as real to her as his factory was to him, and she had no idea of the struggle that he had gone through to climb from poverty to comparative wealth, stepping down hard on the heads and shoulders of his people to get there.”
― Simon Tolkien, The Palace at the End of the Sea