“I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.”

“I believe it's after the honeymoon ends that true love begins. It's in the hard times that the greater virtues of love reveal themselves, like tolerance and patience and kindness.”

“I believe in looseness.”

“You have to plant doubt […] It’s like planting a seed that takes time to germinate. It might look like nothing is happening, but then suddenly the doubt will flower into some kind of action […] Patience is what is needed. People need to hear the truth, not just once but again and again. That’s what the politics of change is all about, patience and repetition, until the truth sinks in.”

“The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.”

“And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.”